IMO Orwell meant to criticize the USSR, but the result is allegorical/general enough that it stands as its own story, better in fact than it works a criticism of the USSR.
It's also not an anti-Marxist book, because it criticizes the betrayal of the revolution, not the revolution itself, which is a triumph over the exploiters. Gorbachyov/the Communist Party revisionists are the pigs who started to walk on two feet, not Stalin.
IMO Orwell meant to criticize the USSR, but the result is allegorical/general enough that it stands as its own story, better in fact than it works a criticism of the USSR.
It's also not an anti-Marxist book, because it criticizes the betrayal of the revolution, not the revolution itself, which is a triumph over the exploiters. Gorbachyov/the Communist Party revisionists are the pigs who started to walk on two feet, not Stalin.