[vgetr]

I liked 1984, but probably enjoyed Animal Farm even more. It was likely a combination of the narrative itself and the fact that 1984 is more about what _could_ happen while Animal Farm describes through fiction what actually _did_ happen (not that parts of 1984 haven’t happened already).

[ravenstine]

Animal Farm makes better use of "show don't tell"(or perhaps "describe but don't explain") than Nineteen Eighty-Four, which I think is why I always appreciated it more.

[dlivingston]

Off topic, but Pink Floyd's 'Animals' record is a retelling of Animal Farm applied to 1970s Great Britain. Great record.

[neilv]

A key idea of Animal Farm seems applicable to many "disruptive" startups.

[_khau]

Animal Farm was a critique of Stalinism and the hijacked Bolshevik revolution more than anything, and it's a good one considering Orwell himself leaned socialist (which Stalinism certainly was not).

[anigbrowl]

It's very interesting to consider that to the extent AF is described as being a critique of Communism, the implicit corollary is that Napoleon's triumph was a systematic inevitability. Few bother to examine the parallels between the Bolshevik and French metaphorical frames, and the latter Napoleon's successful displacement of Sieyes.