Mandatory link to A Critical Read of Animal Farm and On Orwell. Orwell’s chief critique and point of Animal Farm isn’t that the Bolsheviks were bad or anything, it’s that Russian workers are stupid, illiterate, incapable of learning, and deserve to be taken advantage of. This is because of Orwell’s aristocratic chavuanism at play. He justifies logically why the animals let the pigs get worse and worse by explaining that the animals are incapable of understanding anything. The historical misrepresentation of the Bolsheviks is secondary to that central thesis, actually.
Mandatory link to A Critical Read of Animal Farm and On Orwell. Orwell’s chief critique and point of Animal Farm isn’t that the Bolsheviks were bad or anything, it’s that Russian workers are stupid, illiterate, incapable of learning, and deserve to be taken advantage of. This is because of Orwell’s aristocratic chavuanism at play. He justifies logically why the animals let the pigs get worse and worse by explaining that the animals are incapable of understanding anything. The historical misrepresentation of the Bolsheviks is secondary to that central thesis, actually.