Tag: socialism

Animal Farm Was Never Anti-Communist

People often claim that Animal Farm is about how communism necessarily leads to oppression, implying that capitalism is the moral alternative— which completely ignores that in the story, the oppression the pigs brought was, explicitly, the same oppression under which the animals suffered at the beginning of the story: capitalism.

Book Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future starts out by planting us in the middle of a living nightmare. A pre-monsoon heatwave in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is creating wet-bulb temperatures approaching the limit of human survivability.

Animal Farm Historical Allegory Explained: Summary and Analysis

Everything your study guide didn’t tell you about Animal Farm by George Orwell.