George Orwell 1984 and Chess

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I think you should write your own term paper.

I'm assuming there is a typo in that link. Says Orwell had over 2 million published works?!

"In his lifetime, Orwell published nearly 2 million published words."

That book is a revelation i swear. If u haven't read it ur missing out. 

Even by very conservative perspectives,Orwell was quite the leftie , not shy of what many call " far left" these days ( ironically erroneously too). Hence why he became a critic of what Chomsky called "Not socialism, but the destruction of it " ( aka USSR ).. Context as always is relevant. 

Lefty? he was anti totalitarianism lol.

Was still a lefty though. Socialism and Totalitarianism aren't the same thing.

ah, k's and d's, never could get them straight

Conflating  the political left with authoritarianism  is a grave and gross distortion , only second to saying the Nazis were socialists. Just about every right, human or otherwise were achieved only by the restless " far left" ( cough cough). Some say that without the greed of the Right, the left need not even exit . Orwell was quite far to the left even by todays standards. Not your armchair part-time socialist either. The man went to spain to kill fascists. 

They kinda are. Socialism can't survive without Totalitarianism. 

If u dont think the Nazi's were socialist u have no grasp of history.

To avoid writing an essay, I'd ask : Ever read Marx? 
As to Nazis being "Socialist, some history 101 should clarify, so that e do not get confused just by a name ( The TitMouse bird comes to mind). Incidentally , the last Conservative MEP who Mae such a barbaric claim was booed to silence , called an idiot and forced to apologise for his historical illiteracy. He has a PhD in economics, funny enough .
But... If that is still not enough, Hitler himself wrote about how he used the ruse of the popularity of socialism at the time to gather support. 
If only Hitler had clarified this himself. Oh wait he did. He, too, mocked those who confused the two. 
There, this is why you shouldn't bunk history classes 

*sorry for typos 

We've had socialist governments here in the UK, without totalitarism. Whether those socialist governments were actually beneficial for the country is another matter ofc. 

George Orwell is a famous example of a socialist anti totalitarismist. His book "Animal farm" starts by praising the ideals behind marxism, then the rest of the book hates (in Orwells satirical way) on totalitarism and all the stuff that comes with it, from propaganda to mass killings. 

Socialism and Left are vague terms branded about a lot. Marx wrote 10 thousand pages literally on pure economics, while no more than twelve on all else, like the materialistic conception of history, etc. 
People who never learnt about political philosophy and its  history, some philosophy of economics and oit's history and some basic general world history usually spend the rest of their lives shouting " Venezuela" and "USSR" when they hear word socialism, as if the rest of us can not see at a mile that it is just illiteracy on these topics being loud and brash. 

I read somewhere that you don't see actual games I the book, only the main character trying to solve puzzles. And it's stated that in those, white always win. Good (the party) always beats evil (dissidents), this from the party's point of view.

Here: http://deludoscachorum.blogspot.com/2021/01/1984.html?m=1

Well said.