• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    The oligarchs will escape. The people up against the wall will be those that are not wealthy enough to escape, but not poor enough to be desperate.

    There’s a reason that Orwell was banned in the US for being pro-communist and banned in the USSR for being pro-capitalist. That reason is because Orwell was anti-authoritarian.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Orwell’s works are taught in school in the west because they are anticommunist fairy tales, and he was a sex abuser and professional snitch for British intelligence.