2026-09-20 22:53 UTC
you don’t think that socialist efforts get de-railed or coopted by opportunistic oligarchs or figureheads?
‘heterarchical systems need more advanced structure building to survive’ =/= ‘socialism bad.’
everyone is angrily lashing at their own misinterpretation of animal farm as a critique of animal farm.
like people who can’t comprehend building solidarity over stupid media driven culture war bullshit.
yelling angrily at other progressives for being a different shape, or defending actual intentional derailing of efforts are weirdly not the solutions to the famous fallibility of progressive efforts, which you should care about if you actually care about progressive efforts.
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@Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2026-09-20 23:05
I’m not angry at animal farm, I just think it’s a satire of what was going on in the USSR at the time it was written and can’t be applied uncritically to anything vaguely left wing.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-09-21 10:02
The chief point of Animal Farm is that workers are stupid, helpless, and doomed to follow whatever the intelligent people of society say, and that these intelligent people will only ever work in their self-interest. Orwell had to grapple with his own opposition to the USSR and Stalin, as well as the popular support both enjoyed internally. So, he did what he did best, take an aristocratic viewpoint and force it through allegory rather than center the working class as the maker of history.