Talk:George Orwell
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[edit] "Divers"
Divers is a valid word in this context, but pretty old-fashioned nowadays; I was going to correct it but I liked it and left it in. Totnesmartin 13:04, 7 August 2007 (CDT)
[edit] Left-wing writer?
I'd like to reach consensus on this. --JayJay4ever??? 20:10, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
- The guy who coined the term EngSoc as a pejorative, a "left wing writer"? I'd think of him as a rational centrist in a world bent on and twisted by dictatorships from what were then the right and the left. The modern terms could only apply loosely (as today, where they change meanings as one changes country...) ħuman
20:23, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
- I'll bet he was a SCIENTIST also. Yup, a SCIENTIST. Bohdan2 20:32, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
Well, he was a self-proclaimed socialist… --λινυσ(☮) 20:35, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
- I'm sorry, the edit comment should have been "…and neither 1984 nor Animal Farm was actually about communism." My mistake. --λινυσ(☮) 20:36, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
- I don't know if you guys saw, but I changed the first instance from "left-wing writer" to "anti-authoritarian writer", which I think is more accurate of 1984 and Animal Farm. However, I left the second use, "left wing writers and journalists who fought...". But feel free to make it better, explain it more deeply, whatever. ħuman
21:50, 11 July 2008 (EDT)
- I don't know if you guys saw, but I changed the first instance from "left-wing writer" to "anti-authoritarian writer", which I think is more accurate of 1984 and Animal Farm. However, I left the second use, "left wing writers and journalists who fought...". But feel free to make it better, explain it more deeply, whatever. ħuman
- That's the best definition, Human. Above all, Orwell was anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist. Many people (for example: Conservapedians) believe that 1984 was an allegorical reference to Russia only. --JayJay4ever??? 12:20, 14 July 2008 (EDT)