So the moral is not the animals and workers had no business trying
to govern their own affairs, but that power corrupts and always
beware of those who claim the right to exercise power over you for
the greater good.
David Shemano
You either didn't get my point or having got it, refuse to engage
with it. I told you that Russia was ruined economically by a civil
war that included the U.S. as one of the invading armies. This
created conditions that favored corruption, bureaucracy and all the
rest. In Orwell's fable, there is no attempt to explain Napoleon's
behavior outside of some kind of quasi-Pauline belief in the
rottenness of man (or pig). In other words, the novel is utterly
useless for understanding the real emergence of Stalinism. It is, I
suppose, useful to understand how one pig went bad but I prefer more
upbeat fare like "Babe" when it comes to porcine verities.
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