Does there exist a more based author than George Orwell?

He sure as hell wasn't libertarian. That is for sure.

>>8607994
traitor scum

over rated novels

read his non-fiction

Orwell was a liberal, nothing else. He still beats Ay Lmao by far but he wasn't a communist.

"Left-libertarian" is an oxymoron.

>>8608013
>>8608035
>>8608040
>t. has never read Homage to Catalonia

>>8608035
>Orwell was a liberal
Jesus, shut the fuck up.
He described himself as a "Tory Anarchist" and his ideas on "common decency" go against everything promoted by liberalism.

>>8607994

Yes, there are many.

He's still pretty great, but does get a lot of flak, mostly for having an insufferable fanbase - much like Thompson and to some extent Vonnegut. Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London are really, really great, and I think in terms of pure aesthetics, Animal Farm and 1984 pale in comparison. His legacy from these latter works are undeniably monumental though, to the point that many of his inventions of thought have become part of the memes of the general public.

Comparing Orwell to Shakespeare is still ridiculous.

>>8608035
>Orwell was a liberal
>this is actually what Americans think

>>8608040

>What is the distinction between positive and negative freedom

>>8608040
The word libertarian was coined in reference to socialism.

>>8607994
It looks like flan flan is more based

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>>8608106
This. "Libertarians" (propertarians) are so fucking moronic that they don't realize that they're literally referring to themselves by the name of their mortal enemy.

>>8608040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUs_Q_rfl9I

I enjoyed Burmese Days a lot, wondering if anyone else did

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>>8608562
leftists are irrational authoritarians, just look at your average SJW. it's clear their utopia would not tolerate real dissent, property or anything ressembling freedom as we know it. I'm a voluntaryist, I believe in freedom of association and freedom of contract. What if i don't want to pick vegetables at the gender neutral farm co-op?

>>8609036
>Unleash the cops to clear the streets of bums and vagrants
Wow! Such a libertarian philosophy to advocate physical removal. So anarchist to be a cop bootlicker.

>>8608040
>t. American unaware that the political lexicon is practically reversed in America

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>>8609044
REMOVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFgDS9rENMs

>>8609076
>literally can't think out of memes

Kill yourself

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>not being an authoritarian libertarian

>>8607994

Orwell was a socialist.

>>8609138
Yeah, that's why he's libertarian left.

>>8609036
Urgh, I know most people usually just laugh at libertarians but it's really depressing people actually believe this shit, it's just so fucking illogical

>>8609076
I'm not even just using the "hurr kiddies xD" argument, but it's painfully obviously you're really young

>>8607994
>ITT a bunch of asspained rightwingers who have never cracked a political philosophy book in their life rush to explain that everyone else doesn't know the real meaning of terms and ideas

>>8609044
Anarcho-statism is best anarchism.

>>8609215
Neo-feudalism is the best description IMO

>>8609036
>Stefbots
not even once

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>>8609268
At least he's anti-spanking, which is one thing I absolutely agree with him on.

Pic related is absolutely relevant, though.

>>8607994

Good thinker. Shitty writer.

>>8609339
Homage to Catalonia is god-tier though, Anon.

>>8609339
saying Orwell's prose is bad is just contrarian desu

>>8608040
Not as oxymoronic, or mornic for that matter as "anarcho-capitalism." Happy to have a boot on your neck as long as it's not a government boot, eh?

Orwell pointed out a number of problems
What solutions did he come up with?

>>8609412
What do you expect from /lit/?

>>8607994
Orwell's alright as a person, and his books are too, but he's not THAT good.
>>8608013
He was libertarian, but definitely not anarchist.
>>8609427
You know what's moronic?

Getting baited.

>>8609462
>implying

>>8608083
>positive and negative freedom
That's a meme if I've ever heard one, elaborate?

>>8609774
>He was libertarian, but definitely not anarchist.
He literally fought alongside the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War.

>>8610905
He fought in the POUM which was a marxist group; although he did say in Homage to Catalonia, that he thought the anarchists were right.

He was a conservative socialist. What /pol/ should aspire to instead of the nat-soc nonsense.

>>8608046
>>8608049

Actually it's just that /I'm-oh-so-Rand-oh/ amerifats co-opted anarchism/libertarianism as the dominant ideological basis for "free-trade" capitalist-monopoly enslavement of everybody to the new aristocracy that the terms are now radically different.

Orwell most certainly was what you would be called libertarian-communist against the Nationalist/state-capitalist-Communism of Stalin/Hitler/Mussolini/Franco and the Amerifat-led "socialist-democratic" coalition.

The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.
-- Why I Write, 1946

Sorry to get all /lit/ and actually quote the writer, i'll let you return to your regularly scheduled /pol/ thread.