Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!
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June 8th is the 70th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Greg Johnson interviews Margot Metroland on some of Orwell’s sources and influences, the loosely “Trotskyite” political context in which he wrote, and the possibility that he was bumped off by Stalinists.
For further reading about Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four, see:
- Jonathan Bowden, “George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four [3]“
- Jef Costello, “Dystopia is Now! [4]“
- Margot Metroland, “Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full [5]“
- Margot Metroland, “Misreading Animal Farm [6]“
- Margot Metroland, “Henry Williamson, George Orwell, and the Pigs [7]“
- Margot Metroland, “Who Killed George Orwell? [8]“
- Spencer Quinn, “Orwell on Politics and the English Language [9]“
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