“Though both the modern Left and Orwell are egalitarians (Orwell was a socialist), Orwell saw man as too divorced from his nature, while the modern Left sees man (or at least white man) as inherently racist and sexist, stained by original sin. Like Orwell’s villains, they want to “fix” man. The obvious similarity between the Party’s agenda in Nineteen Eighty-Four and today’s Left is not lost on their conservative opponents, and plays a bigger role in Orwell’s popularity on the Right than his anti-authoritarianism.”
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