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[–] Gottmituns 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He was supposedly a Marxist, but one of those "communism has been tried" types that hates Stalin. People say 1984 is supposed to be about nazism, but nothing about Oceania really screamed national socialism to me. Regardless of his personal views, he got a lot of stuff right about the future.

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[–] fourchan1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

more true every day.

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[–] Gottmituns 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This stuff has been building up for a long time. He didn't really make a blind prediction, he just noticed trends and took then to their extreme. There is a parallel for quite a few things he spoke about in the novel.