And Orwell was a disillusioned participant in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. ‘Animal Farm’ was written after his political epiphany, about the rise of Stalin (Napoleon the pig in the book) and the moral bankruptcy of socialism. You could argue that ‘Animal Farm’ is related to the left’s calling police “pigs” but Orwell would actually have regarded the well heeled, tenured leftists as the pigs.
Thanks. I really have to read it. Wo many apt allusions to it ins recent times.