Metalsonic66 posted... Yeah the whole point of Animal Farm was that corrupt people in power can warp the best of intentions
- You seemed to have missed the whole point. It's a fairy tail retelling of the rise of the Soviet Union using the story of an animal farm as a medium (for example, Snowball is Trotsky, Napoleon is Stalin). The point that it tries to drive home the hardest is that, even though the farm STARTED with seemingly-good intentions, it was doomed to fail almost right from the start. The animals were both unwilling to stand up to Napoleon's abuses of power and incapable of understanding that his power was even BEING abused in the first place. That's how the commandments go from 'Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.' to being ruled by a group of pigs who break every one of those rules with 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others' as their only remaining commandment and not even being able to remember IF there were other commandments and, as I recall, other human farmers noting how he'd managed to deprive his animals of even more feed and get more productivity and what they could do to do the same to their own farms.
I don't see how you go from a distinct retelling of the Soviet Union and it's many failings and shortcomings to 'it's about how corrupt people can warp the best of intentions'. The whole POINT is that communism is bad as the animals routinely suffer and have their lot in life made worse while the pigs accrue more and more power, even selling one of them off 'to the knacker' to make a quick buck. While it's true that the good intention was corrupted by the pigs in charge, that's not the whole point of the novel. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. In the end they cannot tell the difference between the pigs (who claimed to have been doing their best for the animals) and the oppressive humans (whom they rebelled against).
All you've done is parrot radical right talking points while you refuse to actually learn what communism is.Communism is what brought misery and death to millions upon millions of people who lived horrific lifestyles yet were deluded into believing they were better than in the evil, capitalist, west by their government espousing the belief that they were 'for the people' while enacting mono-party absolutist rule and stripping away every right they could have possibly had in the process.
'Communism hasn't really been tried.' is a fantasy told by worthless college professors to students who don't know any better because they believe that, with enough pixie dust, unicorn tears, and a pot of leprechauns gold, it will be different THIS time.