Okay, so you’ve picked up Marx, maybe dabbled in communism, and now you’re all fired up about revolution. 👏 But before you dive in too deep and start calling yourself a “tankie” (or whatever’s trending these days), can I suggest something real quick? Read Animal Farm. 👀
I know, everyone knows Animal Farm, right? But honestly, I’m not sure how many of you have actually read it—and I mean really read it. Animal Farm isn’t just some cute little farm story with talking animals. It’s Orwell’s warning about why communism doesn’t work—and why it never will. 🐷➡️👨🌾
The animals overthrow their human oppressors, right? They’re all about equality—everyone is equal. But by the end, the pigs are walking on two legs, living in the house, and looking just like the humans they kicked out. That’s the point. The revolution gets corrupted, the leaders become just as bad as the ones they replaced, and the whole system falls apart. No matter how good the intentions are, when power’s involved, it all falls into the same mess. 😬
You’ve probably seen people online talking about how communism is the future, how it’s this radical change we all need. But let’s be real: look at the countries closest to communism today—North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Does that seem like the kind of world you wanna live in? Is that freedom? Is that happiness? Are those societies thriving? Because from where I’m standing, it’s more like a dystopia. 👀
So before you put that hammer and sickle in your bio, give Animal Farm another read. It’s not just a book—it’s history. It’s a cautionary tale that shows us why it doesn’t work and why it never will. We need new ideas, fresh thinking. Use that brainpower you’re flexing for change to build something that actually works. 💡🔥
Stop identifying with the same old ideologies that have been proven to fail, and start building something better. The future’s waiting for you. ✌️🌍
More or less. The pigs transform back Into the old ruling class and change the rules back to how they were before (“all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”; “4 legs good 2 legs bad”, gets reversed). The hard working horse gets sent to the glue factory when he can’t work hard anymore.
I believe the intent was that the pigs were supposed to be Stalin & Friends. The other animals may have had direct associations with other early Russian revolutionaries. But it’s been a while for me too.
The common interpretation is:
Adding to this, the lib in the screenshot apparently didn’t follow their own advice. Animal Farm isn’t “gommunism bad.” It’s “the wrong people were in charge of the Soviet Union following Lenin’s death.” It’s not exactly subtle because Old Major, Napoleon, and Snowball are obvious stand ins.
This isn’t disputed by even lib academics. Orwell was lacking in material analysis and made up for it with British reactionary brain worms, but the guy was still supporting Trotsky even after Trotsky got merk’d.
I don’t think the farmers attacking is WW2, because Snowball leads the defense. It’s the Russian Civil War.
Stalin/Napoleon cooperating with farmers is meant to be the 30s where the USSR was dealing diplomaticly and economically with the West (including Nazi Germany).
WW2. In particular Stalingrad was literally happening while he tied to publish the book.
🤓 actually the farm is attacked two times, once, when Mr. Jones tries to retake it (Russian Civil War), where Snowball indeed leads the defence, and once by Mr. Frederick (Hitler) who blows up the windmill (symbol of the industrialisation of the Soviet Union) then loses
Oh cool NVM
Ah you’re probably right, it’s been years.
I just remember because of a reddit argument I had years ago, where I pointed out animal farm is inaccurate because it ends before we find out the pigs reforms actually meant they could mass produce weapons to defend against even more genocidal farmers than before, going on to help many other farms having their own revolutions and establishing the highest standard of living in their farm’s history for all animals.
The pigs also did away with foot binding!
Also, Benjamin, the donkey is a stand in for Orwell, although a better comparison would be a pig on Foxwood Farm, who learns to read and write, then creates a list of radical and gay pigs to Mr. Pilkington.
old major is more an amalgamation of both Marx and Lenin.