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. ✌️🌍
Evergreen post. Queen of the dipshits right here. I can understand still finding something meaningful in a kid's book to some extent. But if that's date night conversation you might need to reconsider your relationship to media. And like, if she'd called him obnoxious for laughing, that would be one thing, but calling him an idiot really suggests that she doesn't in fact realise that animal farm literally is a children's book.
the bourgeoisie is great at making anti communist propaganda get a good reputation though admittedly animal farm is a billion times better than 1984
isac azimov's review of 1984 is great ,read it
https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
Like, fuck Orwell for betraying the Spanish communists, but if everyone who thought you had to read 1984 or Animal Farm to learn vuvuzela no iphone also read Homage to Catalonia they'd also recognize that, hey, maybe this guy has totally incoherent politics and shouldn't really be listened to.
Isn't this book just fiction? It's the same thing as saying go watch some star trek and see how good fully automated luxury gay space communism is
My wife wanted me to read Animal Farm just to see what I thought because she knows it’s anticommunist and I am… well, I’m here.
Almost as quickly as Snowball is introduced, I was like, “oh shit Snowball’s gonna get fucked isn’t he?” My wife was like, “how’d you know?” and I just looked at her and said, “because he’s Trotsky”.
I didn’t realize prior to that how much Animal Farm is a literal one to one fictionalization of the October Revolution but it’s not subtle about it.
LMFAO I can't believe Orwell named his idol Trotsky stand-in Snowball
Bringing Marx back to life to tell him his work was deboonked by a British liberal's children's book
I invite everyone to picture Orwell as a gungan from star wars named Jorjor Well
"Jorjor, did you give the names of rebels and sympathizers to Palpatine?"
"Oopsie!"
I thought this was satire at first put the users blog is filled with what seems to be sincere pizza gate stuff so I think they're just a liberal
This is why i love Tumblr
There's a very peculiar sort of Posting™️ that happens over there out of view of the common person
Just pure
You have to play Blackout though, just getting 5 in a row is too easy.
The lesson they think they are trying to get across is that communism just leads to the same oppression but with communism characteristics.
So what's their preferred solution? A revolution that leaves the system in place so the exact same hierarchy can take shape as before?
Have no revolution at all?
Fucking stupid pessimistic liberal bullshit.
Why do I have to wipe my ass if it just gets dirty again? Check mate tankies
Yeah it just boils down to "nothing will change so don't try". Like thanks you utter worms, but I think I'd rather do something with my time alive
These people don't want power, they want to endlessly justify powerlessness and apathy
I read animal farm twice during highschool and it doesn't prove anything? It's a moral parable with a clear anti-communist bent, but it's not arguing anything.
(Also, it seems like Orwell is popular amongst Australian teachers of the time period, even reasonably "progressive" ones, so it seems odd that someone would be like "here is a book no one has ever heard of")
I mean, anyone saying that a fiction book "proves" something is completely off base. The revolution in AF goes wrong because the author wrote it that way, because it is his opinion that that's what happened in the Soviet Union (a country which he never visited for the record).
Animal farm is just all of the same anticommunist, antirevolutionary talking points that every single person has heard from a million sources, but packaged in the form of a story.
I read Animal Farm when I was like 13 I think. Is this synopsis basically correct? Farm animals are being abused at the start, have a revolution and achieve class-collaborationism with the farmer (so not DotP, social democracy at best), then the pigs (who are in charge) slowly start being evil and selling the other animals off to the butcher for personal gain. That basically it?
Is there any parallel between Animal Farm and things that actually happened in the countries they listed or was it really just "Orwell had a scary thought and now it's your problem"?
Also Cuba high key fucks despite being embargoed for decades.
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:
- Old Major, the pig who dies before the revolution, is Lenin
- Napoleon, the evil pig who allies with the humans after the WWII metaphor, is Stalin
- Snowball, the good pig who just wanted to teach the pigs to read, is Trotsky
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.
Napoleon, the evil pig who allies with the humans after the WWII metaphor
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
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.
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.
I believe Orwell was opposed specifically to Stalin”ism” as he was some sort of Trot. Or at least considered himself as such… not sure even Trots would accept him.
The best part is when the head pig poops on his own balls
We pigs must get more food because our work is thinking work. That is why we poop on our own testicles with regularity.
Such an unforced lib error to throw in Cuba with Venezuela and the DPRK. Ime most people agree that Cuba is fine and that we're fucking them over for no reason.
Also, okay, let's assume the poster is right, gommunism is evil and can never work. What alternative do they have? Nothing. Vote for Joe Biden and we'll all still die in the climate apocalypse but maybe he'll do 0.5% less genocide in Palestine than Trump.
