My Westoid school decided it would be a good idea to have us read Animal Farm in English class before we had learned about the Russian Revolution in History class.

Cue an exasperated English teacher trying to explain to a class of confused middle schoolers how the pig is obviously Trotsky or Stalin.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we got an explanation when my class read it but for some reason the interpretation was basically lenin = good and stalin betrayed the revolution.

i think our teacher was a trot

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ive never read animal farm but I thought that was the intended reading

[–] Des@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pretty sure it is. blair was still nominally a "socialist" even if a total POS

even in my most anti-communist youth there was always a seed of "what-if" lenin didn't die would the communist project have succeeded. i just thought it was a historical one-shot that never could be repeated

fucking great man theory BS

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