Orwell's Apocalyptic Vision

I can think of no better argument for the greatness of Orwell's 1984, and its colossal importance as a fundamental text for the 20th century and beyond than this passage from Micheal Allan Gillespie's Nihilism before Nietzsche:

The Russian Revolution has been called the god that failed. This mistaken conclusion is the consequence of a fundamental misunderstanding of the theological and metaphysical essense of the revolutionary movement in Russia. The Russian revolution is in fact the story of the god who triumphed, but this god was not a god of light who inhabits cities of aluminum and glass but a dark god of negation who lives within the secret souls of the Bazarovs and Rakhmetovs of the world and enters into actuality in the form of Nechaev, Lenin, and Stalin.

What we discover in the afterglow of this great event is that the fire this new Prometheus brings down to earth is not the hearth flame that is the center of the home but a conflagration that consumes civilization. The fiery heart of Blake's demonic destroyer when liberated from its animalistic shell does not assume a symmetry and humanity of its own but remains the formless force of chaos, as essentially negative will. At the end of modernity, the dark God of nominalism appears enthroned within the bastion of reason as the grim lord of Stalin's universal terror.