Am 05.01.2012 13:10, schrieb ian batten:
Orwell knew what he was writing about.
Yes. He wrote about a society in which people were prepared to betray
their friends to the secret police in exchange for trivial rewards.

"Do it to Julia" was not cried out for a "trivial reward".

And then he betrayed his friends to the secret police in exchange for
trivial rewards.

The people who were on the list were not his friends any more, I think.

But makeing a big fuss about this list of people known for their
political stance is typical for the stalinists, who never forgave Orwell
his "Homage to Catalunya", where he destroyed all the stalinist lies
against the Spanish revolutionaries in the most effective way, and gave
a sober description of the counter-revolutionary role of stalinism in
the Spanish civil war. That is the real cause of the Stalinist hate of
Orwell, which you reflect here, not this list. The list is only a cover.

But sure, the English bourgeoisie also doesn't like Orwell. They try
to use two of his works, and put all others in the "memory hole".

Cheers,
L.W.