I know it is a known Classic but i liked Animal Farm so much i had to share. Before reading i thought that it would be similar to 1984 or Brave new world which it kind of is but its also very very different. Right from the Beginning i was hooked. I really love Orwells Books but this one is my favourite. I did not expect that. So for anyone that did not yet read it, i highly recomend it! :)

  • MinekPo1@lemmy.ml
    76·
    1 year ago

    Just as an FYI Orwell was kinda a horrible person. You can still enjoy his literature if you want but he couldn’t help to find Hitler unlikable, was a colonial cop in India and didn’t like how the Hindi people treated him because of it and and made lists of people who he accused of being leftists and Jewish.

    • LiberalSoCalist@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      couldn’t help to find Hitler unlikable

      I think you meant, to quote Orwell himself:

      I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler.

      More on the list in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list

      There is a notable and obvious overlap in Orwell’s notebook between many of 1940s London’s prominent gay, Jewish and anti-colonial public figures and the accused “cryptos.” Orwell’s bigoted commentaries fill his suspects notebook. Jews are clearly labeled (“Polish Jew,” “English Jew,” “Jewess”) whilst others were mislabeled (“Charlie Chaplin — Jewish?”). The African-American bass singer and future civil rights activist Paul Robeson finds himself in Orwell’s list with the note “very anti-white,” whilst the half-Jewish poet Stephen Spender is damned as a “sentimental sympathiser… tendency towards homosexuality.”

      It’ll always be funny that the dude who wrote something like 1984 was such an eager proto-McCarthyite snitch for the propaganda unit of the British Foreign Office.

    • abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      I would have thought finding Hitler unlikeable would be a positive attribute ? Was that a typo ?

      Orwell was a socialist so making lists of leftists seems surprising; are you sure this wasn’t an ideological tankies vs socialists or marxists vs trotskyists ?

      • Andjhostet@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Orwell paraded as a socialist which is why he knew who were true leftists and who weren’t. Dude was a narc of the highest order, and a traitor to the cause any way you look at it.