I think they’re good books, it’s just that they’re again and again referred to as “proof that communism was horrible” by people who have not the slightest clue how communism actually was besides what the western governments tell them about it
Written by a British imperial cop who doesn’t have the slightest clue about the place he’s writing about and relies on his own life experience of oppressing Indians for King and Country to fill in the gaps
I think they’re good books, it’s just that they’re again and again referred to as “proof that communism was horrible” by people who have not the slightest clue how communism actually was besides what the western governments tell them about it
Written by a British imperial cop who doesn’t have the slightest clue about the place he’s writing about and relies on his own life experience of oppressing Indians for King and Country to fill in the gaps
Really I found them dull 1984 especially