• Aniki@feddit.org
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          8 hours ago

          uhm i can recommend “animal farm”. it has a few very iconic quotes. spoilers:

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          for example, the pigs say “all animals are equal”. therefore no animal should get exploited by the farmer who slaughters them. to which the other animals agree

          later the pigs say “well, some animals are more equal than others”. to which the animals agree again, because it makes sense to them.

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              8 hours ago

              have you actually read it? it says the exact opposite. he warns of how dangerous hitler is because of his personal apeal, while explaining in full detail why hitler is a devastating addition to the world. did you actually read it?

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                Have you? It’s a poor anti-communist allegory, so I don’t know where you’re pulling anything anti-hitler or anti-nazi from it. Snowball is Trotsky, for example. It’s not subtle.

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                And yet he personally could never personally dislike him. How much of a Hitler loving bastard do you have to be to acknowledge all of his evil and then turn and say and yet I could never even dislike him not to mind hate or abhor. Not to mind his thoughts on the Burmese the fact he was a rapist, how he was pushed by the CIA (they funded the British original animation) or how animal farm is a polemic against the working class. As Jones Manoel put it

                Orwell spends the entire book describing generations of animals as easily confused, dumb, stupid, illiterate, amnesiac… the entire book! The main target of this book’s critique aren’t the revolutionaries or communism: it’s the working class. George Orwell writes from an aristocratic ethos. “Elite theory” posits the people as incapable of self-governance, without the capacity to constitute themselves as a political subject, and therefore always the object of dispute and manipulation by vying elites. The people lack the capacity for political self-determination, cannot build a political program or engage in autonomous political action. This is George Orwell’s theory, borne out by his choice of metaphors. […] Animal Farm isn’t a critique of revolutionaries; it’s a critique of workers. It’s an aristocratic manifesto against the working class

                among the myriad of other reasons to despise him (such as his snitching notebooks where he compiled lists of Jews and communists) and his acolytes. Orwell was no great thinker he was a spoiled narcissist.

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                8 hours ago

                He’s also a plagiarist since he stole the whole concept.
                Tried to rape a girl and also was a snitch and traitor.