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Given that the two biggest names in dystopian literature (Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World) are not capitalist futures—assuming one doesn't use the trivial and meaningless definition "anything I don't like is capitalism"—this seems a bit of a stretch. I suspect dystopias are more believable than utopias because deep down we all know that human nature is, unless properly guided through social conditioning (the mechanisms of which are as variable as the colours of an autumn forest), a dark, festering kind of place.
Fordism, named for industrialist Henry Ford ,is not capitalist? The whole book is a desciption of capitalist excess and the dumbing down of culture through consumerism. And Orwell was a traitor, but he still fought alongside socialists and identified as one.
"If I don't agree with a socialist, he doesn't count as one"
I mostly disagree with him ratting out fellow leftists to the state's information wing.