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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
The idea is that it was all working well as a communist utopia until they got corrupted by capitalist pigs who were only interested in furthering their own agenda. Whereas the anti-communist line is that it could never possibly work because people are inherently greedy and selfish.
I don't know, or care, which one Orwell intended, but there's a little bit of truth in both of those points. Communism, like anarchism, is a theoretical ideal, but any attempt to build a working society around it is always doomed to failure.
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True enough that it does tend to fail. The pilgrims tried the model when they first landed and it didn't work for them either. After all if all are going to share in the crops, etc. no matter what then why should person x have to do any work in order to get his/her share? the book is based on the Revolution in Russia as I understand it. One of the pigs leaves the farm and is later found to have been slaughtered. He represents Trotsky who left Russia and was later found murdered with an axe (if I remember my history right). At least one publisher said that though he didn't like communism that he couldn't possibly publish such a general attack on it as the book was (I think I remember the quote correctly) so at least one publisher saw it as being anti-communist.