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But Communist propaganda has been so successful that people to this day think that Hitler was the epitome of murderous tyrants. They ignore Stalin and Mao who were ten times worse, and don't even know they are igoring them. '''This is precisely the point of ''1984''!''' --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 16:21, 16 August 2011 (EDT)
But Communist propaganda has been so successful that people to this day think that Hitler was the epitome of murderous tyrants. They ignore Stalin and Mao who were ten times worse, and don't even know they are igoring them. '''This is precisely the point of ''1984''!''' --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 16:21, 16 August 2011 (EDT)
== Conservative? ==
I am not of the belief that George orwell was a conservative. I would refer you to his 1943 essay "Why I Write", in which he refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his "watershed political experience", saying "The Spanish War and other events in 1936–37, turned the scale. Thereafter I knew where I stood. 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."
I cannot see how anybody could possibly claim him to be a conservative, reading that. If anybody finds any contradicting sources, drop me a line, I'm totally open minded to the idea that he was a conservative. However, he seems to advocate democratic socialism, and 1984 is a slight on ''communism'' rather than the left. He just seems to be libertarian, which is ''not'' synonymous with conservatism. But again, drop me a line. --[[User:eglynn|eglynn]] 13:07, 21 March 2013 (GMT)