"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. Man does not give milk, nor does he heat eggs, he has no power to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. However, he is god over all animals. "Man puts the animals to work, turns them back as little as possible, so that they do not starve, and keeps the rest for himself." - excerpt (translated by Sokol Çunga), "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.
After years of oppression and exploitation, the animals of a farm, tired of the constant melancholy of human beings, decide to rebel and, after ousting the owner, try to create a new order, founded on a utopian concept of equality. Soon, however, a new class of bureaucrats is born among them, the pigs, who with the cunning and selfishness that characterize them impose themselves arrogantly and tyrannically on other animals.
George Orwell, writer, essayist, journalist, activist and literary critic, was one of the strongest opponents of any form of totalitarianism, as seen in 1984, a novel widely used today to describe various totalitarian mechanisms. of thought control.
The New Yorker writes that "Orwell did not like communism, nor capitalism, so" Animal Farm "became a warning against political change in itself. Orwell himself called it a "fairy tale" as the swine caught more and more human features, but in the meantime it is a profound allegory not only to the communist system of the former Soviet Union, but to all human dictatorships.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell
