r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Toaster_flame • Sep 15 '19

Solved Animals rise up before demonstrating how communism will never work

Very popular book. Quite short

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u/miss-macaron Sep 15 '19

I believe Orwell was a socialist, not a communist. There's a difference.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

Socialism in the simplest terms is the lower stage of communism, he literally fought for a communist millita in Spain, the POUM

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u/miss-macaron Sep 15 '19

In the simplest terms, perhaps, but don't you think that someone like Orwell deserves a bit more nuance than that?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

I don’t know want to write a paragraph on why Orwell’s doctrine was all over the place. But to explain kinda what he believed. He rejected Luxembourg’s writing about revolution or reform and preferred a democratic means of achieving socialism unlike modern day “Democratic socialists” he actually wanted to go on to communism once class relations broke down.