Tag Archives: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Soviet propaganda poster from 1931 telling the workers that the 5-year plan can be completed in 4 years with enough enthusiasm.

3,175 words

Part 1 here, Part 2 here

4. Doublethink

Among the many useful concepts bequeathed to us by Orwell, “doublethink” tops the list. It is a priceless tool for understanding how “normies” function within the repressive, PC societies of the West. The novel offers us two separate discussions of doublethink, which complement each other. The first occurs early in the story, and is the most famous passage dealing with the term:

Published: October 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, articles, Collin Cleary, crimestop, doublethink, George Orwell, North American New Right, originals, the Leftist mind, totalitarianism | 10 Responses

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part II:
What Orwell Can Still Teach Us

Collin Cleary

2,995 words

Part 2 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

3. The Denial of Reality and the Control of Language

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited, Part II:
What Orwell Can Still Teach Us

Collin Cleary

6,674 words

Part 1 (Part 2 here)

1. Introduction

Everyone thinks he knows what’s in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Is there really anything left to say? It’s as if George Orwell’s masterpiece has been sucked dry. At least, that’s what I thought until I recently reread it, for the first time in over thirty years. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, articles, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Communism, George Orwell, Newspeak, North American New Right, originals, thoughtcrime, totalitarianism | 36 Responses

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Orwell, Molotov, & the “Crisis of Capitalism”

Margot Metroland

O’Brien (Richard Burton) demonstrates that 2 + 2 doesn’t always equal 4.

2,306 words

Did the international crises of 1947 and 1948 leave their mark on the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I’ve spent a lot of time on this question, and so far as I can tell, the answer is – yes; but only obliquely. And George Orwell may not even have been conscious of the fact.

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 234
Happy Birthday Nineteen Eighty-Four!

Margot Metroland

65 words / 52:55

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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. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Communism, Counter-Currents Radio, Cyril Connolly, dystopian fiction, George Orwell, interviews, James Burnham, Margot Metroland, podcasts, Trotskyites | 8 Responses

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Your Nineteen Eighty-Four Sources in Full

Margot Metroland

3,232 words

Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”

“In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 107
Interview with Tito Perdue, Part 1

Tito Perdue

61:55 / 166 words

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On Saturday, March 7th, 2015, I sat down with Tito Perdue and his wife Judy in Atlanta and interviewed him about his life and work. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, Lee, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, podcasts, Thomas Wolfe, Tito Perdue, Walker Percy, Whittaker Chambers, William Faulkner, Witness | 7 Responses

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Odpočívej v pokoji, Rayi Bradbury

John Morgan

3,708 words

English original here

Ray Bradbury, spisovatel nejlépe známý díky románůmMarťanská kronika, 451 stupňů Fahrenheita, a autor stovek dalších povídek, zemřel 5. června 2012 ve věku 91 let. S jeho osobou ztrácí Amerika nejen jednoho ze svých nejlepších spisovatelů, ale také jednoho z našich posledních skutečných spisovatelů.

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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

Jonathan Bowden

11,013 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture, “Nineteen Eighty-Four and Totalitarian Leftism,” which was delivered to the 23rd New Right meeting in London on September 26, 2009. In editing this transcription, I introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks. I also deleted a couple of false starts. You can listen to the lecture at YouTube here. Several bits were unintelligible and are marked as such. If you can understand these words, please post a comment below. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, George Orwell, Jonathan Bowden, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Tse-Tung, Nicolae Ceausescu, North American New Right, originals, totalitarianism, V. I. Lenin | 8 Responses

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Pulp Fascism

Jonathan Bowden

9,838 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcription by V. S. of a lecture entitled “Léon Degrelle and the Real Tintin,” delivered at the 21st meeting of the New Right, London, June 13, 2009. The lecture can be viewed on YouTube here. (Please post any corrections as comments below.)

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Ray Bradbury, R.I.P.

John Morgan

4,335 words

Czech translation here

Ray Bradbury, the writer best known for his novels The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, as well as a hundreds of short stories, passed away on Tuesday, June 5 at the age of 91. With him we have lost not only one of America’s greatest writers, but also one of our last genuine writers.

However, I don’t use either of these words – genuine or writer – lightly. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, anti-modernism, anti-technology, articles, commemorations, dystopia, Farenheit 451, George Orwell, John Morgan, literature, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ray Bradbury, science fiction, technology, The Martian Chronicles, Traditionalism | 31 Responses

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Dystopia is Now!

Jef Costello

4,648 words

Whatever happened to the Age of Anxiety? In the post-war years, intellectuals left and right were constantly telling us — left and right — that we were living in an age of breakdown and decay. Read more …

Published: January 4, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, articles, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Brave New World, dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Francois Truffaut, George Orwell, Jean Raspail, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Ray Bradbury, The Camp of the Saints, thumos, white dispossession | 39 Responses

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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

Jonathan Bowden

The poster for Michael Radford’s movie adaptation of “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

1,048 words

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is probably the most important political novel of the 20th century, but the Trotskyite influence on it is underappreciated. The entire thesis about the Party’s totalitarianism is a subtle mixture of libertarian and Marxist contra Marxism ideas. One of the points which is rarely made is how the party machine doubles for fascism in Orwell’s mind—a classic Trotskyist ploy whereby Stalinism is considered to be the recrudescence of the class enemy. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 1984, book reviews, George Orwell, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

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Alex Kurtagić’s Mister

Edmund Connelly

4,856 words

Alex Kurtagic
Mister
Foreword by Tomislav Sunic
Guildford, U.K.: Iron Sky Publishing, 2009

Imagine a novel that is a marriage of George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four and Jean Raspail’s depressing account of the genocide of Europeans, The Camp of the Saints.