[Miner49er]

He still wrote the book as a critique from a socialist standpoint. The whole point of the book was that the USSR was not real socialism and was damaging the Socialist movement.

He explains it in this preface: http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/epfc...

[BurningFrog]

A wonderful and informative read, thankyou!

I'm reminded that I need to read his Catalonian book.