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it's funny how 1984 describes the symptoms of late neoliberal capitalism better than it describes what it was trying to
Orwell was the worst writer ever, since he conveyed the message opposite to intended. Note how his books, especially 1984, are never presented without additional anticommunist preface and commentaries.
Well, 1984 was quite deliberately more closely based on Orwell's life in the UK. UK has ministries (and its "Ministry of 'Defense'" was constantly engaged in overseas war), Orwell was employed as a propagandist (like Wilson), UK secret police regularly opened his mail, Room 101 is based on chat in the BBC etc.
Despite libs liking to claim it's a perfect replication of Stalin's Russia, it was substantially moreso a criticism of totalitarianism as already existed then in a capitalist state.