Post #1804836
2026-04-30 07:36 UTC
The basic meaning is idealist, though, as in non-materialist. 1986 outlines an “authoritarian” society that has essentially no material reason to be authoritarian. The book explains in painstaking detail how the citizens have fake coffee substitutes with no flavor, but doesn’t explain at any given time why this happens. It reduces this idea of “authoritarianism” simply to “state bad”, without any further political analysis. It’s lazy and sloppy.
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@mattyroses@lemmy.today 2026-04-30 09:35
It does explain that, in Goldstein’s book. Without destruction of production and privation, you cannot maintain a hierarchical society is the argument it plainly makes.