“The Interests of All Exploited People Are the Same”: An Analysis of Orwell’s Socialist Perspective
George Orwell’s satires, Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), stand as two of the most iconic political satires of the twentieth century century. They offer forceful expressions of how revolutions are betrayed by the corrupting effects of power, ultimately resulting in regimes more repressive than th...
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2026
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| Zusammenfassung: | George Orwell’s satires, Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), stand as two of the most iconic political satires of the twentieth century century. They offer forceful expressions of how revolutions are betrayed by the corrupting effects of power, ultimately resulting in regimes more repressive than those they replaced. Yet what began as an internal critique of Socialism was soon recast as an argument against revolution and Socialism. Since his untimely death in 1949, the Left has decried Orwell’s betrayal of its cause, while the Right has appropriated his anti-totalitarian rhetoric in its war against Communism. By situating Orwell’s political and moral thought within its historical context — the turbulent decades of the 1930s and 1940s, marked by capitalism’s deepest crisis, the rise of Fascism and Soviet Communism, and the Second World War — this article seeks to reexamine Orwell’s political thought in the context of the political crises of the first half of the twentieth century, and to reconsider his work in a new light. |
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