Animal Farm

For those of you who enjoyed yesterday's post, today's will be disappointingly long.

To try to help Daisy in her endeavours to set up our own farm I just finished reading Animal Farm, in the hope it would give me some ideas. My initial impression was that it was a critique of dictatorial regimes in general and communism under Stalin in particular. Although it is clear that Orwell had socialist leanings and agreed with a number of Marx's principles, he also saw too many similarities between the supposedly socialist state in Soviet Russia and the dictatorial, exploitative tsarist regime it had replaced. But then I thought about it properly and realised what Orwell really wanted to say - don't trust pigs. But I already knew that anyway. I heard it in a Niggaz With Attitude song, I think.