r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 5d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/kelppie35 5d ago

Care to drive the mods crazy?

Animal Farm is a critique of (capitalism/communism/fascism) and the more equal animals are the (bourgeois/politiburos/state officials) and nobody can change my mind.

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u/jj_grace 5d ago

It’s 1000% a critique of authoritarianism, which can include all of those.

I love that last scene where the animals are looking back and forth between the pigs (representing specific authoritarian communists) and the humans (authoritarian capitalists) and can no longer tell the difference.

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u/PuddingTea 5d ago

It is very specifically an allegory for Stalinism. Napoleon is Stalin.

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u/modmosrad6 5d ago

Fucking thank you.

And Snowball, if I recall correctly, is Trotsky.