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I read it a long time ago and now I can't really remember the ending and ain't got time fo' dat shit to read it again.

Doesn't it have a "become that which you hate" theme to its ending?
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the pigs become humans/the elite

communism is essentially a select few elites tricking liberal cucks into overthrowing their government to establish an even worse authoritarian government run by said elites

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Milkman5 posted...

communism is essentially a select few elites tricking liberal cucks into overthrowing their government to establish an even worse authoritarian government run by said elites

Well I don't need a book to tell me that. It's kind of evident just from the civil structure that emerges.
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This is Orson Welles' best book!

The credits rolled
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It time jumps to a few years later. The windmill that Snowball lauded so much is complete, but all the conveniences and luxuries he promised don't appear. Instead, the animals are set to building a second one. The Commandments are boiled down to a single one: All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. The pigs begin wearing clothes, walking upright, and carrying whips.

They invite the surrounding farmers to a dinner. Some of the animals spy on them. They hear one of the farmers applaud Snowball for the efficiency of Animal Farm, saying that its animals work harder and eat less than any other farm in England. Snowball thanks him, but states that he made one mistake: the farm will no longer be named Animal Farm but will return to its proper name of Manor Farm. Furthermore, they will be removing the boar's skull (that of Major, who started the revolution) because the animals have an "inexplicable" reverence of it.

And then:
hyperpsycho posted...

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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You guys realize the book is not about communism as in the Marxist form, it's specifically about the Stalinist form of communism right?
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Solid Sonic posted...

ain't got time fo' dat s*** to read it again

its like 90 fkn pages dude lol I can finish that in the course of a couple smokes.
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Paper_Okami posted...

You guys realize the book is not about communism as in the Marxist form, it's specifically about the Stalinist form of communism right?

You realize that the book actually shows how Marxism transitions into Stalinism, right?

And that history has yet to suggest that anything else is possible?
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darkjedilink posted...

Paper_Okami posted...

You guys realize the book is not about communism as in the Marxist form, it's specifically about the Stalinist form of communism right?

You realize that the book actually shows how Marxism transitions into Stalinism, right?

And that history has yet to suggest that anything else is possible?

Orwell himself believed otherwise, that's literally not what the book says.

An aged prize Middle White boar provides the inspiration that fuels the rebellion. He is an allegorical combination of Karl Marx, one of the creators of communism, and Vladimir Lenin, the communist leader of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet nation, in that he draws up the principles of the revolution. His skull being put on revered public display recalls Lenin, whose embalmed body was put on display.


"A large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way".[12] An allegory of Joseph Stalin,[10] Napoleon is the main villain of Animal Farm.

Snowball – Napoleon's rival and original head of the farm after Jones' overthrow. He is mainly based on Leon Trotsky,[10] but also combines elements from Lenin

The Spanish Civil War played the most important part in defining Orwell's socialism. He wrote to Cyril Connolly from Barcelona on 8 June 1937: "I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before."[174][175] Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.[176] Although he was never a Trotskyist, he was strongly influenced by the Trotskyist and anarchist critiques of the Soviet regime, and by the anarchists' emphasis on individual freedom. In Part 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier, published by the Left Book Club, Orwell stated: "a real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown." Orwell stated in "Why I Write" (1946): "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."[177] Orwell was a proponent of a federal socialist Europe, a position outlined in his 1947 essay "Toward European Unity," which first appeared in Partisan Review. According to biographer John Newsinger,

the other crucial dimension to Orwell's socialism was his recognition that the Soviet Union was not socialist. Unlike many on the left, instead of abandoning socialism once he discovered the full horror of Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union, Orwell abandoned the Soviet Union and instead remained a socialist – indeed he became more committed to the socialist cause than ever."[61]

In his 1938 essay "Why I joined the Independent Labour Party," published in the ILP-affiliated New Leader, Orwell wrote:

For some years past I have managed to make the capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against capitalism. But I do not delude myself that this state of affairs is going to last forever ... the only régime which, in the long run, will dare to permit freedom of speech is a Socialist régime. If Fascism triumphs I am finished as a writer – that is to say, finished in my only effective capacity. That of itself would be a sufficient reason for joining a Socialist party..
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Oh, whoops, I put Snowball as the bad guy instead of Napoleon in my post.
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I wonder which characters some users on CE would be
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Capn Circus posted...

I wonder which characters some users on CE would be

Duckbear or Unfair would be Squealer.
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Paper_Okami posted...

You guys realize the book is not about communism as in the Marxist form, it's specifically about the Stalinist form of communism right?

I doubt any of them have heard of a 5 year plan other than their high school graduation path.
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The liberals lose as usual
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Hot pig sex
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muh real communism
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1NfamousACE_2 posted...

Hot pig sex

All that really matters, I suppose.
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1NfamousACE_2 posted...

Hot pig sex

big pig jig
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Some guy made a sequel called 'Snowball's Chance' btw
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ArtVandelay posted...

its like 90 fkn pages dude lol I can finish that in the course of a couple smokes.

Not saying 90 pages is long, but. Do you read really fast, or smoke really slow?
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