<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>"Orwell was not a communist;</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>He certainly wasn't, he wrote <span class="gmail_default" style="">"A</span>nimal <span class="gmail_default" style="">F</span>arm<span class="gmail_default" style="">", probably the most famous anti-communist satire of all time, that's why it was illegal to possess a copy of it in the Soviet Union.  Speaking of that, I highly recommend the movie "The Death Of Stalin", it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying, and that's not easy to do. </span></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">he identified as a democratic socialist and <br>
was critical of totalitarianism, including both fascism and Stalinist <br>
communism. His experiences during the Spanish Civil War, particularly <br>
with the Communist Party, shaped his opposition to authoritarian regimes."<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell</a><br>
<a href="https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/how-spains-civil-war-defined-george-orwell-politically/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/how-spains-civil-war-defined-george-orwell-politically/</a><br>
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Ben<br>
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