Post #3274929
2026-05-08 08:19 UTC
What did you not enjoy? The content or style it was written? I didn’t get that part.
To me animal farm is still among the absolutely best books I have ever set my eyes on. Not for the reason it was written: communism, power. No, the very picture that it paints using animals: they are used and then discarded.
Looking at it at face value, this is happening in both communism and capitalism. It is a feature of how we organize our societies.
For me the book has never been a criticism of communism. But an eye opener how we use and abuse the world around us for our own benefit, no matter in which ideology we fall.
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@cinoreus@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 08:29
It's was a critique of authoritarianism, using example of communist ideologies, in my opinion. I didn't like the style, like in history textbooks, how they gloss over minute details? That's what I felt about animal farm. Like, it felt like most of the animal farm was written by a distant observer, not someone who lives on the farm. Most notably the book lacked first person dialogues. It was almost entirely written in indirect speech, except for a few moments.