{"id":12850,"date":"2021-02-08T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:04:23","slug":"our-animal-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-animal-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Animal Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Orwell published Animal Farm<\/em><\/a> in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most na\u00efve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow\u2019s impending postwar communist aggression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short, allegorical novel\u2019s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical 1930s Stalinists. Thereby, they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orwell saw that the desire for power stamps out all ideological pretenses. It creates an untouchable ruling clique central to all totalitarian movements. Beware, he warns, of the powerful who claim to help the helpless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most na\u00efve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow\u2019s impending postwar communist aggression.  The short, allegorical novel\u2019s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3lg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9668,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/america-as-animal-farm\/","url_meta":{"origin":12850,"position":0},"title":"America as Animal Farm","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review New commandments replace the old ones on the barn wall. 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