Socialism puts Spain in '1984': if the party tells you so, “two and two made five”

The British writer George Orwell is famous for two novels that are clear references to one of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.

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Orwell wrote both as a critique of Stalinism, since he himself was a militiaman for a Trotskyist communist party, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), during the Spanish Civil War, but in the end what he did was write a description of communism in general, especially its cynicism and its shamelessness in lying and manipulating. In "Animal Farm" (1945), Orwell depicted the Bolshevik revolution as a revolt of farm animals, in which a group of pigs (symbolizing the Stalinists) ended up betraying their own comrades.

That novel was a reflection of what he himself experienced in Spain when the Stalinists of the PCE, aided by Soviet agents, liquidated the POUM, assassinating its leader, Andreu Nin, using one of the Soviet Cheka's favorite torture methods: tearing off strips of skin. A brutal method that the Cheka was already using when Trotsky was one of the leaders of Bolshevik Russia, by the way, which shows that if you support criminal methods against your enemies, you shouldn't rule out the possibility that your rivals within your own ranks will eventually apply them to you.

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it”

Without a doubt, Orwell's most famous novel was the last he wrote, "1984," a work published in June 1949, a few months before tuberculosis claimed the British writer's life. In "1984," Orwell describes a fictional totalitarian regime that clearly symbolizes Stalinism, especially because of its habits of rewriting the past and lying brazenly, using fear and violence to bury the truth. In the book, the protagonist reflects on the capacity of the single party in that dictatorship to distort reality:

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense."

Reading "1984," all of this seems unreal, but Stalinism used the slogan "2+2=5" in its propaganda in 1931, as a way to make workers believe that with their enthusiasm, anything was possible. In reality, these blatantly false slogans served to test loyalty to the party: anyone who didn't want to be thrown out and executed had to accept them. The best way to rise in communist dictatorships was to admit that the party was always right, even if one day it said one thing and the next day the opposite.

“Two and two made five” in democratic countries

Democratic countries believe they are safe from such totalitarian delusions, but they are not. In fact, for decades now the political left has proven its capacity to twist reality and distort the truth as in a dictatorship, threatening all those who dare to contradict the official lies dictated by a single ideology. We have clear examples of "two and two made five" in the pro-abortion arguments of the left, which deny the scientific evidence on the beginning of human life, implying that women conceive non-human beings or simply things. We can also see "two and two made five" in the absurd gender ideology, which attempts to invalidate biology by claiming that if a man identifies as a woman, then everyone must say they are a woman if they don't want to be fined or even imprisoned.

The left managed to get a part of the center-right to accept these irrational theses, sometimes out of fear of being singled out and harassed by the left against those who disagreed, and other times out of sheer argumentative laziness. Finally, in Spain we are seeing the consequences of this docile acceptance of lies, with a socialist government that uses deception systematically, lies disguised by the socialist Pedro Sánchez as "changes of opinion", which of course are accepted by his followers with an uncritical attitude typical of the communist dictatorship of North Korea.

A level of lies like that of Soviet propaganda

This "two plus two equals five" policy, simply because the party says so, is something we see daily in government press conferences where a minister lies repeatedly with utter shamelessness, and also in the statements of government members who distort Civil Guard reports to imply they are saying what they are not saying, trusting that the bulk of their followers won't even bother to read them to check if it's true or not.

Currently, and with this strategy of systematic deception, the coalition government of socialists and communists has adopted forms increasingly similar to those of the Soviet dictatorship, assuming the idea that the leader is always right, even if he says one thing and then the opposite, and demonizing the parliamentary opposition, judges, and independent media for daring to say that two plus two made four, defying the party's slogans.

To defend the truth is to defend freedom

It is precisely on this issue that we can most clearly see the authoritarian drift of Spanish socialism: if truth does not exist, then freedom will be slavery and ignorance will be strength, as in "1984". It is the old dream of all totalitarians: that the people swallow their lies and accept what those in power say without question, looking askance and pointing the finger at anyone who dares to dissent. In these turbulent times, just as a century ago, defending freedom also means defending truth, which is the best bulwark against any form of totalitarianism.

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