Even though animal farm is definitely anti-USSR and AES, I don’t understand how you read it and have the takeaway be that the farmers are the good guys.
Which Soviets have no problem with, even before the USSR was founded, for example in first Sovnarkom of RSFSR on 17 seats 5 were members of minorities.
The real point is that Russian workers are stupid, illiterate, and incapable of complex thought, and thus destined to be taken advantage of by anyone more intelligent, good or bad. Genuinely, Orwell dedicates a huge portion of the book to explaining just how stupid the animals are and uses that as justification for them allowing the Pigs to get worse over time.
Even ignoring the misrepresentation of history, the required assumption is that the workers were incapable of understanding anything to begin with.
The takeaway is that revolutions are bad, even if they mean well. Specifically socialist revolutions because they promise prosperity for all, but then turn into authoritarianism. You’re supposed to sympathize with the pig
Even though animal farm is definitely anti-USSR and AES, I don’t understand how you read it and have the takeaway be that the farmers are the good guys.
If anything, the takeaway is gulag the liberals before they wreck the revolution lmao
The proper takeaway is to let minority groups (other farm animals) have representation in government
Which Soviets have no problem with, even before the USSR was founded, for example in first Sovnarkom of RSFSR on 17 seats 5 were members of minorities.
Hmmm… But at what cost?
Looking from British colonial cop PoV, probably that one of them was a Jew
The real point is that Russian workers are stupid, illiterate, and incapable of complex thought, and thus destined to be taken advantage of by anyone more intelligent, good or bad. Genuinely, Orwell dedicates a huge portion of the book to explaining just how stupid the animals are and uses that as justification for them allowing the Pigs to get worse over time.
Even ignoring the misrepresentation of history, the required assumption is that the workers were incapable of understanding anything to begin with.
Orwell was a purveyor of average upper-class
twit takes, and of course anticommunists still use them as circlejerk fodder 80 years later
In a lot of ways, he was the Ur-gammon
He’s perfect fed material, which explains why he worked with British Intelligence. A perfectly controlled “opposition.”
The takeaway is that revolutions are bad, even if they mean well. Specifically socialist revolutions because they promise prosperity for all, but then turn into authoritarianism. You’re supposed to sympathize with the
pig
But liberal revolutions, like the American one, are fine and great actually.