| Well, there are several science fiction writers who depicted dystopian world - the Iron Heel (1908), for instance, talks of a capitalist dystopia in which the very rich own everyone else. Orwell, however, was AFAIK the only one in whose book the main theme was not anti-capitalistic, as with Brave New World, but also anti-communist. Huxley's world, I know, was a capitalist-consumerist world so utopic that it was dystopic; Orwell focursed on the pure dystopia and on power itself, rather than just attacked capitalism. The myth that 1984 was written only against socialism has been refuted even by Orwell himself, who explained that it was about power more than anything - a quick reading of Goldstein's book will verify that. |