Comment on Casual reminder

• Heartwotalk@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell would also be a good read for someone looking favorably on the Soviets during the Spanish Civil War.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wasn’t Orwell a British spy under Churchill and a professional anti-communist agitator?

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    • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was radicalized against the Soviets because they did not support the socialist revolution led by anarchosyndicalists. Instead Stalin supported the liberals because he said it wasn’t time for revolution yet which is BS since Barcelona and big parts of Catalonia did well under anarchists. An anarchist revolution would undermine the “ends justify the means” and “there is no other way to socialism than ours” rhetoric of the bolsheviks.

      TLDR He was an anti-Soviet agitator but from the left

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He was radicalized against the Soviets because they did not support the socialist revolution

        Was this before or after he served as a British intelligence officer in colonial-era Burma?

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