NP Orwell's politics

[Michel Ryckx]

> I guess what's most "startling" about the sentiment is
> that Orwell was such a stern opponent of communism as well. _Animal Farm_
> certainly symbolises how fascism and *communism* "are at bottom the same
> thing", doesn't it?

No it does not --unless my English teacher many,  many years ago was wrong (it was the first English
book I've ever read in its original language) when he told us that it was a fable about stalinism.
That is: a fable about how, in origin, nice ideas get deranged.  As one can argue that fascism is
just a special form of capitalism, so stalinism can be seen as the cancer of communism.

Michel.