Isaac Deutscher's review of 1984 is surgical but all the more brutal for it. Not really any wonder that he ended up on Orwell's IRD list after this
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I winced a bit at 'the bogy-man of a rather inartistic nursery tale'
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Came here to say this again, and stumbled on my former self. Still a very good take though!
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Hit's the spot really. Despite Orwell's intentions, the fact that his historical and political analysis were so superficial mean '1984' is basically a science-fiction novel rather than a political dystopia. It's good it's scathing because many people treat '1984' too seriously.
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Which literary (or film or art) depictions of political violence do a good job of avoiding this? Thinking about everything from 'come and see' to
'The Ex-Communist's Conscience' is also very good marxists.org/archive/deutsc
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