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And seeing Animal Farm as a critique of communism is REALLY reading the book in a childish manner. Communism is just an environment here.
Orwell never really cared about the economic system behind, it was much more about mass and language manipulation. Both 1984 and Animal Farm are about that, not about communism...
Right from the horse's mouth.
According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm