Posted by goldstein! on January 16, 2003 at 19:53:43:
In Reply to: Info about the pigs on Animal Farm posted by Candice on January 15, 2003 at 16:48:58:
There are many examples of betrayal and deceit on behalf of the pigs over the animals. I guess it depends on how libertarian a person may be to see each deceit singularly.
You could argue that the animals had been deceived all along, when the pigs, so like the bolshepriks, proclaimed that they would lead. And, the family sing-a-long turns to tragedy. And they didn?t change anything just gave the world a new elite.
The milk and apples is the first example and of course the most obvious.
The second is squealer or should I say mike munroe or larry king.
Who goes around justifying everything the pigs do. I mean there are many examples.
Hey, do you know much about the internationale? In many ways animal farm is a parody of the internationale, when the cliquiness of Marx and the other old Marxist/bolshepriks, began to exclude and passively purge bakunin and others who were after a non-hierarchical less authoritarian internationale to fight both capital and the state. Until the tsar collapsed in Russia and the bolshepriks purged everyone. Then the revolution was complete.
Anyway there are heaps of examples of deceit, but one must first become enlightened before they may be able to point them all out individually!