When a teacher in New York assigned the novel to forty-nine adult students in 1982, only one read it as anti-communist; the rest were reminded of the FBI, CIA, Watergate, television and computers. The book was now resonating at different frequencies.
It's about totalitarianism, not anti-communism. The communists only took offence to it during the post-war era because there was no other totalitarian regime to criticise.
