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1. djsumd+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-12 15:12:02
The book Animal Farm is a great representation of this concept as a fable.
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2. ivanba+J6[view] [source] 2020-06-12 15:53:39
>>djsumd+(OP)
Animal Farm is not intended to be a fable. It is an allegorical retelling of Stalin's co-option of the Russian revolution - and that co-option is presented as only being possible because the populace is illiterate and ill-informed, which allows for revisionism from the Stalin-figure.

Orwell almost certainly did support anarchist revolution and utopia, given his role in the Spanish Civil War - and his concern about the suppression of anarchism through a totalitarian control of information is exactly what 1984 is about. He never would have felt that "Anarchic utopias do not stay utopic for all that long."

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3. tomp+f01[view] [source] 2020-06-12 21:03:10
>>djsumd+(OP)
Is it? I thought Animal Farm was specifically about communism (it's been a while since I read it). Wouldn't Lord of the Flies be a better fable?
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