Read it, at the beginning of the Reagan era, the leftist professor was rabid that Orwell was predicting Reagan, I knew better.
At the very least you can see how even a Leftist back then saw the world of 1984 as bad , even if they think it would be conservatives that caused it. Both sides could agree that 1984 was a dystopia. Now our Politicians think it’s a guide book.
“Read it, at the beginning of the Reagan era, the leftist professor was rabid that Orwell was predicting Reagan, I knew better.”
Funny.
Orwell fought alongside the Republican Left in the Spanish Civil War which put him in close contact with Trotskyites and Stalinists other jewels of 1930s Communism.
That experience taught him to loathe them with a passion and it inspired Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
He remained a social democrat but he wasn’t fooled about the totalitarian nature of the hard Left.