tags: 1984

2000

July

2000 Jul 31
Thought Police

OK, this writing every day deal isn't working out so well….

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2006

May

2006 May 15
marxian crisis energy against orwellian global capitalism

Before I completely lose sight of this thought, I wanted to talk about this post on crisis theory and this post on the world of 1984. I think crisis theory does make useful analogic predictions about the future. (OK, I don’t for a moment purport to truly understand crisis theory, but I think I have some gist of it.)

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2016

June

2016 Jun 17
Orwell and Democratic Socialism

Orwell was anti-fascism and anti-totalitarian communism but pro-democratic socialism.

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