Didn’t watch the video but isn’t it just authoritarianism in general?
Yes. Orwell favoured democratic socialism himself.
The book attacked authoritarian socialism (“IngSoc” being a bit of a clue) to some degree but it didn’t really focus on the socialist elements - it was all about methods of control, which could be employed under any economic system.
Animal Farm was a much more direct attack on Stalinism.
To be fair, the book came out on the heels of WW2 wrapping up, and the Nazis literally called themselves “National Socialists,” so I’m not sure we’re meant to take “IngSoc” at face value.
It’s been literal decades so I may be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure he even addresses this?
“Didn’t watch the video” seems to be a popular sentiment, considering the content of some of these replies.
Too many people trying to answer the question of the title, instead of actually watching the video and seeing what he has to say about it.
Maybe he should write an article instead of a video. I’m much more likely to engage with those. Or I guess I could run his video through an LLM to get a text summary.
It’s revisionist history to pretend Orwell was talking about socialism.
It’s ignorance to pretend socialism has anything to do with fascism.
“BuT nAzIs CaLlEd ThEmSeLvEs SoCiAlIsTs!”
The ignorant cling hard to simple labels, it’s how they interact with the world.
The people who think Orwell was on the right are the same people who think Hitler was on the left. This is not a serious debate.
Authoritarianism
I mean… asking the question betrays a pretty deep lack of understanding of both the book and the author.
I watched. Good video, but I don’t entirely agree with the premise. Interesting to think about though.
Everyone that has read the book understand that it is attacking fascism.
