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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The point of animal farm is "Communists are so shit, they're almost as bad as capitalists". Suggesting that Orwell wouldn't prefer communism to capitalism is simply false.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

His writings on the matter in his essays seem pretty clear that he's against arbitrary unchecked statist authoritarianism, which is what I'm talking about.