"[The lesson of George Orwell's '1984' is to trust] leaders, the press, experts"

"[The lesson of George Orwell's '1984' is to trust] leaders, the press, experts"
-Donald Trump

Thoughts?

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Wasn't that Clinton?

Yes, it was Clinton.
And the lesson is simply to think for yourself and that authoritarianism is bad

I bet it'll work. It's not like the people who hit you over the head with 1984 have actually read the book (or any other).

1984 is used in America largely as propaganda.

Forget what the actual intention of the book was when Orwell wrote it, in the United States it's used, essentially, as a scare piece saying "this is what our enemies are like". Both what the enemies of the US are like in their own countries as well as what the ideological opponents of the reigning American political class will turn America into should they ever gain power.

It is in this sense that Hillary (and Trump) invoke 1984. So, yes, the "lesson" the American ruling class has been pushing for 1984 is that you should never subvert the American political paradigm. It was more a slip of the tongue on Hillary's part.

The lesson of '1984' was clearly that socialism is bad, and capitalism is good
t. neolib

the lesson of 1984 was to never trust nazis, social democrats or soviet russia

Orwell was right wing liberal, and anticommunist.

Orwell BTFO

In America 1984 and Animal Farm are used as anti-communist propaganda. Never mind they were written by a socialist. I guess the American bourgeois are shit at writing propaganda novels. There’s people here who believe Orwell was a “constitutional conservative.”