Didn’t watch the video but isn’t it just authoritarianism in general?
Yes. Orwell favoured democratic socialism himself.
The book attacked authoritarian socialism (“IngSoc” being a bit of a clue) to some degree but it didn’t really focus on the socialist elements - it was all about methods of control, which could be employed under any economic system.
Animal Farm was a much more direct attack on Stalinism.
“Didn’t watch the video” seems to be a popular sentiment, considering the content of some of these replies.
Too many people trying to answer the question of the title, instead of actually watching the video and seeing what he has to say about it.
What he has to say about it is bullshit, because he’s reframing totalitarianism as global oligarchy (which is a little too close for comfort to “the globalists”) and ending on the libertarian fever idea that capitalism of all things will destroy oligarchy.
Maybe he should write an article instead of a video. I’m much more likely to engage with those. Or I guess I could run his video through an LLM to get a text summary.
I watched. Good video, but I don’t entirely agree with the premise. Interesting to think about though.
