“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

The best takedown of communism ever written is arguably George Orwell's "Animal Farm"--a short allegory in which animals able to speak decide it's just not fair that they have to work or produce to earn their keep.

So when the day is over they start having meetings planning the upcoming revolution, inspired by the stirring motto "All animals are equal!"

Sounds faaabulous, eh?  

You need to know that in from 1920 on, communism was *the* Hot New Thing among "elites," and in the U.K. both government and universities were absolutely filled with communists and their supporters.  But Orwell was a fierce opponent of communism, so his journalism was relentlessly censored by British communists and their fellow travelers.

The censorship forced him to resort to fiction.  The inspiration for Animal Farm came from a pre-war children’s book called "The Adventures of the Little Pig"  published by the ‘Left Book Club’ to get children to hate capitalism and love communism, as the little pig grapples with various threats said to characterize rapacious capitalism--like having to work.

Orwell wrote a story about pigs and other farm animals mimicking the Bolshevik revolution, which had promised liberation but instead ushered in a far harsher tyranny than before.

Despite never mentioning the USSR or communism in his animal fable, anyone familiar with the Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent history of the USSR knew exactly what Orwell was talking about--which meant that British Communists rushed to suppress it, warning that it was a threat to national security, the war effort and would ruin relations with Moscow.

Orwell had often fought with a U.K. entity called the Ministry of Information, which was like bribem's "Disinformation Governance Board."  Infested with Communists and leftists, that ministry did everything possible to keep Animal Farm from being published.  In his later novel "1984" Orwell would name this leftist-run ‘Ministry’ the "Ministry of Truth," with the job of lying, "doublespeak," "doublethink" and torture of dissidents.

Animal Farm was finally published in the summer of 1945.

One of the hallmarks of leftists--inheirited from their communist leaders--is the constant inversion of language to describe things as the opposite of what they really are.  One of Orwell's greatest legacies was to make the Left's constant inversion of language into an adjective.  Ask you highschool and college kids if they've heard the term ‘Orwellian,’ and if they know what it means.

Communism professes to champion freedom, but in fact punishes dissent.  So in the book, the pigs who constantly bleated "All animals are equal!" turn out to be the new rulers. 

Today Animal Farm’s perfect allegory of the Bolshevik (for young Americans: communist) revolution goes right over the heads of most young Americans.  Leftist labels for the different classes--both on the farm and in society, like "proletariat"--mean nothing to young Americans.

Ask your kids (over 15 or so) if there's a difference between "equality" and "equity."  Pay close attention to their explanation (if any).

As a writer and political analyst, Orwell paid close attention to political language, such as the way the Left makes voting in an all-powerful leftist government seem like liberation: “All animals are equal," right, comrade?

But at the very end someone changes the slogan by adding "...but some animals are more equal than others.” 

You'd think the utter hypocrisy would be obvious to all, but the leftist pigs blandly, soothingly insist that *someone must rule* or else we'd have chaos, right?

Orwell also lampooned the compulsion of communist lackeys to create inspiring slogans, coining pig-slogans like “Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad” to demonize the farmer (oppressor).  In "1984" he'd immortalize these with the three slogans of the Party of Oceania: “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery” and "Ignorance is Strength."

All those seemingly sarcastic (to us) slogans are slowly explained in "1984" in classic Leftist "baffle-gab," and you see how it *kind of makes sense* if you limit the scope of the discussion.

From here it's an easy segue into logical inversions like "doublespeak" and "doublethink."  The latter is definded as "The ability to hold two totally contradictory ideas in mind at the same time...and to believe both."

Leftists always claim to champion the oppressed, because at least half the population can feel oppressed about *something*, eh?

The brilliance of Animal Farm is showing, in simple language, how revolutions purportedly made to "liberate the oppressed" invariably devolve into tyranny.

80 years later, Animal Farm mocks the Left's notion that "liberation movements"--determined to always stay in power--could ever be other than totalitarian.  It offers a warning to contemporary American and European liberals who, like their counterparts in Orwell’s day, allowed themselves to be hijacked by Communism.

Orwell warned readers to be suspicious of the slogans and rationales deployed by those in power to justify their rule.  But of course that was a long time ago, right?  There's no way any lessons from so long ago could have any relevance today, eh?

“All animals are equal" always becomes "...but some animals are more equal than others.”

Two sets of laws, eh?

Source.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/animal-farm-turns-80/