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> Gee, I *loved* _Animal_Farm_, and I'm a fervent supporter of capitalism.
> The book attacks the Soviet Union for ending up too much like Czarist
> Russia -- I would hardly call Pig-controlled Animal Farm a capitalist
> society.  The book supports the ideal of socialism, but makes it clear
> that it's real easy for that ideal to be used as a method of getting
> people to work hard for the common good when they would NEVER do so
> for the farmer alone.

Common good?  More like good of the rulers, only the Pigs (like Stalin and
his gang) know how to make the subjects *think* they are improving the
common good when they are only fattening up the rulers.  When they finally
realize what's going on, there is no more Marx/Lenin figure (Old Major)
to inspire them into another idealistic revolt.