Animal Farm

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Summary: Politics in Disguise
Review: What would seem to be a story of farm life,and a farmer manning his crops and animals,author,George Orwell, will take farming to a whole new level.Farm Animals are used to represent people in the time of the russian revolution. Such as the pig Napoleon, he would be the farms,Josef Stalin.This book is based on trials of Farmer Jones.He's the type of farmer who's irresponsible. He lets his crops die, and starves his animals.Most of this lack of care is due to his alchohol obsession. Little does he know, while he's drinking himself into oblivion, his animals are planning on moving forward to a new life.The animals,led by Napoleon the pig,start living a communist lifestyle. Once the animals realize what Napoleon is doing, they start stashing food such as apples and milk for themselves. This book was a fascinating read, and gives you a really cool look oncommunist countries, yet by an animals view. I would definitely recommend it.

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Summary: Two Thumbs Up for Animal Farm!
Review: Animal Farm takes place on a farm in England. An old pig tells all of the farm animals that they need to revolt one day and take over control of the farm. It starts out well, the animals are all equal and work together for the common good. But the pigs slowly take over absolute control of the farm. One pig, named Napolean, becomes the farm's dictator, executing animals, rewriting history, and slowly becoming more like the humans that they overthrew in the first place. The story is modeled after that of The Soviet Union. The conflict is unfornuately, not resolved. This is because the book was written before the Soviet Union was defeated and overthrown. If the book had been written after the USSR's downfall, however, I am positive the ending would be similiar to that of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Summary: This isn't just about Soviet Communism, it is about USA.
Review: I read this book from the American perspective, and I think this perspective too, fits perfectly.

The colonists overthrow Britian (corrupt and evil enslaving power), we establish our utopia. Our utopia is a Constitutional Republic.

At first, everthign works great. We have freedom, we have respect for rights, and we have an honest money and trade system. All people are equals, and each is free to produce and live an abundant life.

But, slowly, over time, the principles (the commandments) are abused. The treachery is hidden from public view. The pigs (congressmen) treat themselves to extravagant spending. The executive wages war and rallies support for its stupidity initiatives (space flight, war, socialism). Congress, in alliance with the money/banking powers, establishes fradudlent paper money, illegal and fradulent banking systems, and our economy is reduced to a unproductive series of accounting gimmicks. When times get bad, we go to war.

Now we are left with a system of government far worse that that of the original England. We embrace socialism with a eagerness not even shown in Russia.

We THINK we're free, we think we have justice, we think we have open and free elections, we think we have a real economy. All lies, all told to keep up the morale of the working class for the benefit of the elite. The business of the government in America has been to (unconstitutionally) wage war, and to lie to the most people in a believable way. The government views it's function as a propaganda mnachine, to keep people believign in the fantasy, for the benefit of the fradulent financial elite. All while the underlying "doctrine" is ignored. All while the judiciary looks the other way regarding the "commandments", the
constitution. Today, judges view their role as social engineers (for the greater good), not as their oath would imply- keepers and defenders of the "commandments".