2006-08-02 13:20:42 · 6 answers · asked by chefj 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
[For those who don't understand the question, George Orwell wrote, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it."]
He became very anti-Stalinist after witnessing their suppression of other leftists. He was influenced by Trotskyist and anarchist criticisms of the Soviet Union. He was a lover of individual freedom, as all who truly support democracy are expected to be.
The biggest mistake of past communist governments was that they didn't maintain democracy. It is as impossible to establish economic equality when there is no political equality as it is impossible to establish political equality when there is no economic equality.
2006-08-05 20:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by cyu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the orwellian sense is not like common sense, nor dollars and cents. so it makes good sense that democratic socialism is senseless if the scents of cents are in the air
2006-08-02 20:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
any socialism that has no check and balances in its power structure has the potential to swerve into the orwellian. when truth and facts can be controls that serve only one governmental entity then katy needs to get right up and bar the door.
2006-08-02 20:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by emptiedfull 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like most porte manteaux in his book, it covers the Real meaning-- what We would take it to mean, namely a form of Doublespeak, a phrase that captures the opposite notion than what exists, which then supplants reality linguistically to SEEM like it is what the words primary, non-mythological meaning is.
So democratic socialism would mean to a person who lived in "1984" just what it means to us-- a kind of term that suggests freedom among the population to choose political outcomes in a government that is designed to serve them.
But of course the reality is opposite from OUR perspective. From theirs, they believe (by pain of much propaganda and history-shredding) that they truly do have a social democracy. And that the Dept. of Peace really isn't the Dept. of War.
2006-08-02 20:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better ask the Dutch and French.
2006-08-02 20:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, when voters have more power than the mafia or corporations.
2006-08-02 20:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by superstar dj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋