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Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 combined?
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RE: Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 combined?
(November 1, 2012 at 10:53 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Not according to your own link... (seems to be a recurring pattern).
Turns on the t.v...
Yup, dystopia.
oh stue your so silliful
(November 1, 2012 at 11:55 pm)festive1 Wrote: Perhaps not in the 1984, complete lock-down sense. The countries my husband is examining in his book on are Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, and Rwanda. The premise of the book is how these governments are totalitarian and why regimes like these keep springing up in Africa. I'm not a political expert, but he is, and I trust his opinion on the matter. He says they meet the full definition of totalitarianism.

the only self described totalitarians were the italian fascists, for the most part this phrase was popuarized by anti-communist propaganda in an attempt to link Communsim to Nazism. Ethiopia played a role in the cold war, Siad Barre was creating a socialist "Greater Somalia", which encompassed most of East Africa, American intrests instead backed a <blank> government in Ethiopia in a very bloody proxy war

Now you say your writing a book that calls them totalitarian, but alot of people would call this government, a "free" capitalist democracy, others a fascist military dictatorship.

However, rwanda doesn't really apply????
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RE: Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 combined? - by cratehorus - November 2, 2012 at 2:22 am

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