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I have noticed a couple of posters here who are openly Communist. I have no problem with that. This is America, and ALL views should be heard. However, I have a question for them.
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Originally Posted by danarhea";p="
When George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, he was writing it as a condemnation of Communism. The sentence that ends the book tells it all. It says that humans and pigs were sitting around a table and nobody could tell which was human and which was pig.
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It was not a "condemnation of Communism".
The novel is far more than just that. That line is the culmination of the long and well crafted allegory of Stalinist Russia. It has to be taken as such.
Orwell never ceased being a socialist, despite his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. His opposition was to party-based communism, rather than the ideology behind it.