Let us broach a polemical subject. The British author George Orwell is very well known for works such as Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his book about the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia. Throughout 2022 I intend to discuss each of these three works in detail.

Animal Farm isn’t a critique of revolutionaries; it’s a critique of workers. It’s an aristocratic manifesto against the working class.

    • leftofthat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "and since he believed in a gentlemanly English form of socialism, he was inevitably on the losing side"

      Got em

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Opposed to him were passionate Spanish anarchists, syndicalists, and communists, who bitterly resented the fact that the necessities of fighting the Franco fascists got in the way of their fighting each other.

      Isaac why you gotta do this to me.