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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (32063)	2/4/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I happened upon "1984" when I was in elementary school, and by the time I was in 9th grade, I had read it about a half a dozen times, and my favorite sections many more times. I have also read "Animal Farm" and his essays many times, although I have only read some of his other work. I truly believe, as Norman Podhoretz had argued, that had Orwell lived into our time, he would have become a neoconservatism. He certainly had our views on the Cold War, it was just a matter of time before he saw the whole thing. On the other hand, Sidney Hook died claiming to be a social democrat, although it was unclear what content that had for him anymore.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (32063)	2/4/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: cody andre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Pre-1936, Orwell was flirting with Communist ideas and the British Communist Party (part of the Komintern). Only after witnessing the "deeds" of Komintern commissars during the Spanish Civil War (a la Beria) and especially, after the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 1939, did he become anti-totalitarian. His war years at BBC only strengthen his views of Nazis and Communists (which are both the same evil). Thus, THE ANIMAL FARM and "1984" books which by the way, were banned and punishable by jail in pre-1989 Communist-occupied countries. Just a reminder, many Western intellectuals in the US, UK, France, etc. were openly sympathetic of or members of the respective Communist/ local Nazi parties. It was during that period that Stalin NKVD and GRU recruited such luminaries as Kim Philby et al (at Cambridge), Alger Hiss, etc. // CA