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2025-08-19 13:22:38 UTC - HELPFUL
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Animal farm was against authoritarianism, particularly Stalinist-USSR, not communism in general. Orwell volunteered in the Spanish Civil war with POUM militia (Anarchist-communist). He was anti-Stalin, but agreed with Rosa Luxembourg, Trotsky and Marx. https://www.marxists.org/archive/orwell/1945/preface.htm https://files.libcom.org/files/Homage%20to%20Catalonia%20-%20George%20Orwell.pdf https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/
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