This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.

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    ironically portrayed much of the authoritarianism we see today in capitalist countries.

    Which “capitalist countries” do you mean? I’d agree there is dangerously growing surveillance in Western Europe and the US, but this surveillance is much worse in self proclaimed anti-capitalist and “anti-western” countries like China or Russia or Iran.

    I’d say 1984 is anti-totalitarian, and that has nothing to do with a particular political ideology.

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      Given Orwell’s negative experiences with communism, I don’t think its innaccurate to say it was a reflection of the biggest communist country at the time–the USSR. That being said, it can be interpreted however anyone wants, and it being interpreted as solely anti-totalitarian works better in my humble opinion.