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1984 facts
The book's working title was ''The Last Man in Europe'', but it was changed at the publisher's suggestion.<ref>It is often suggested that "eighty-four" is a reversal of "forty-eight", the year in which the book was written, but this has never been confirmed.</ref>
Orwell was influenced by the ideas of the American [[conservative]] [[James Burnham]]'s book ''The Managerial Revolution'',<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21337504 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia]</ref> which contains many of the same themes. This helped to shape the political situation described in 1984. Orwell also found influence in Jack London's novel ''[[The Iron Heel]]'', and Yevgeny Zamyatin's ''[[We]]''. This entire excerpt is a beautiful example as to why republicans don't even know the slightest about the book 1984, or the fact that it criticizes today's conservative party, and no just because Orwell denied communism does not mean that Orwell was conservative. Correlation (even terrible correlation) does not equal causation.
Though Orwell was deeply critical of communism, it is debatable whether 1984 was intended as a condemnation of all forms of [[socialism]]. Orwell denied attacking socialism but that may have been essential self-preservation for a writer in the pro-socialism climate in [[Britain]] at the time. On the other hand, it is possible that Orwell, being acutely aware of the promotion of liberalism by large corporations in crony capitalist environments, believed that a form of socially conservative limited socialism was the best way to prevent the further erosion of freedom and traditional values. Orwell wrote, in response to critics: "My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the [[British Labour Party]] (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."<ref>''The Collected Essays: Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4,'' p. 546</ref> 1984 has a conservative message, and was influenced by the work of [[James Burnham|Burnham]].
