Reconsidering 'Animal Farm' at 80

'Animal Farm' at 80: Orwell's parable remains 'horribly' relevant

George Orwell's "Animal Farm" may be 80 years old this weekend but it still "resonates today" – and "not just as a terrible indictment of left-wing idealism and Communist tyranny", said writer A.N. Wilson in The Times.His "incomparable masterpiece" illustrates "exactly what Lenin, and then Stalin, did to the population of the USSR" at the beginning of the last century but the animal characters' "pathetic weakness to believe political mantras" re…

Reconsidering 'Animal Farm' at 80

Animal Farm. PHOTO: PENGUIN The legacy of Animal Farm is author George Orwell's enduring commitment to socialist revolution, Glenn Burgess writes.

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‘Animal Farm’ at 80: Orwell’s parable remains ‘horribly’ relevant

George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” may be 80 years old this weekend but it still “resonates today” – and “not just as a terrible indictment of left-wing idealism and Communist tyranny”, said writer A.N. Wilson in The Times. His “incomparable masterpiece” illustrates “exactly what Lenin, and then Stalin, did to the population of the USSR” at the beginning of the last century but the animal characters’ “pathetic weakness to believe political mantras” r…