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bmo-the-communist:

thisisspinaltapprivilege: bmo-the-communist: thisisspinaltapprivilege: bmo-the-communist: thisisspinaltapprivilege: stopmakingliberalslookbad: bmo-the-communist: stopmakingliberalslookbad: Most of them are probably still in junior high. Animalfarm was written by a communist/socialist Orwell was a democratic socialist, not a communist. Sorry. @bmo-the-communist thank you for proving OP’s point. Animal Farm was a critique of Stalinism, basically comparing it to capitalism in all forms. It was written by a anti-stalinist socialist and was not about communism (these two terms meaning the same thing essentially). Don’t act like you know something about a subject and bulldog your way through it, you come off as an ignorant, chauvinistic pig. Oh my fucking god. Please be a troll because I cannot believe someone would be this dense. Pure ideology *retardation Imagine having to face to be so wrong it makes you look like a fud. Oh wait, don’t need to, you’re right here. Typical ahistorical liberal.

Seriously, though. “Ahistorical liberal”? I’m pretty sure you’re the one to talk here, saying that George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to criticize capitalism.

“Animal Farm,written in 1945, deals with similar themes but in a shorter and somewhat simpler format. A “fairy story” in the style of Aesop’s fables, it uses animals on an English farm to tell the history of Soviet communism. Certain animals are based directly on Communist Party leaders: the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, for example, are figurations of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, respectively. Orwell uses the form of the fable for a number of aesthetic and political reasons. To better understand these, it is helpful to know at least the rudiments of Soviet history under Communist Party rule, beginning with the October Revolution of 1917…These and many other developments in Soviet history before 1945 have direct parallels in Animal Farm: Napoleon ousts Snowball from the farm and, after the windmill collapses, uses Snowball in his purges just as Stalin used Trotsky. Similarly, Napoleon becomes a dictator, while Snowball is never heard from again. Orwell was inspired to write Animal Farm in part by his experiences in a Trotskyist group during the Spanish Civil War, and Snowball certainly receives a more sympathetic portrayal than Napoleon. But thoughAnimal Farm was written as an attack on a specific government, its general themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice have far broader application; modern readers have come to see Orwell’s book as a powerful attack on any political, rhetorical, or military power that seeks to control human beings unjustly.”



-SparkNotes

“The pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer adapt Old Major’s ideas into “a complete system of thought”, which they formally name Animalism, an allegoric reference to Communism. Soon after, Napoleon and Squealer partake in activities associated with the humans (drinking alcohol, sleeping in beds, trading), which were explicitly prohibited by the Seven Commandments. Squealer is employed to alter the Seven Commandments to account for this humanisation, an allusion to the Soviet government’s revising of history in order to exercise control of the people’s beliefs about themselves and their society.”



-Wikipedia

“Animal Farm is indeed communist propaganda. It describes how the animals overthrow the farmer and drive all humans from the farm. The animals create a set of laws, designed to eradicate all hints of humanity; humanity, of course, represents the capitalist government. The animals call each other “comrade”, a clear reference to communism, and after the revolution the animals are described as being “happy as they had never conceived it possible to be” (Orwell 46).



“The novel describes much of the procedure of running a communist state. It includes the organization of committees, and the indoctrination of the public in the form of the sheep. Snowball, one of the two pigs who leads the animals after the revolution, teaches the sheep to repeat the maxim “Four legs good, two legs bad,” which, he feels, sums up the laws of their new system - completely against humans. Methods of propaganda are also explored. Carrier pigeons are sent to neighboring farms to deliver heroic tales of the revolution and convert other farms to ‘Animalism’ - the domino effect in action. Internal propaganda is the responsibility of a pig named Squealer, whose primary function is to convince the animals that the actions taken by the pigs are for their own good. This is a clear description of how to keep a communist regime in power: as long as the pubic is convinced that all actions are for their own good, they will go along with anything. The public is constantly told that they are doing better than ever before; Squealer always tells the animals that they are producing more food more efficiently than when they were under human rule, no matter what the reality of the situation.”



-Animal Farm: A Communist Manifetsto