It extremely bothers me tbh
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Replying to @LadyIsak @arthur_affect and
— and like, I’m a Soviet Jew, much of my family remained commies, and like! Orwell’s tidy little Aesop elides a fuckton of nuances, especially the complex ethnocultural + racial power dynamics in the USSR in general and among the Bolsheviks in particular
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The worst thing about Animal Farm if you treat it as actual history and not just anti-Stalinist polemic is how much it relies on making all the other animals "dumb animals" Shitting on poor benighted Russians for being misled by con men because they don't know better like us
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LadyIsak and
I cried over Boxer the horse so much as a kid.
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Replying to @omendreamer @LadyIsak and
Boxer's story is the best thing in this book And it applies equally to the lies told to the working class under American market capitalism or Soviet state capitalism/"communism" And it's reprehensible this gets taught as something that only happened in Russia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LadyIsak and
I think part of why it made me so sad is I recognized that. My Dad was regularly injured by the physical demands of his job and it was always a ticking time bomb if he would recover before being fired.
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Replying to @omendreamer @LadyIsak and
The quote in A Raisin in the Sun where Mama tries to find words for how much life her husband's job stole from him, that he barely even moved or spoke when he got home "Every night... he looked at the rug... and he looked at me..."
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Replying to @arthur_affect @omendreamer and
"I watched him grow old and thin before he was forty, worked to death like an old horse, killing himself - that money was all that was left of him, and YOU GIVE IT AWAY IN A DAY" And she starts beating the shit out of her own son for squandering the insurance payout
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Replying to @arthur_affect @omendreamer and
Arthur Chu Retweeted Arthur Chu
Anyway yeah It fucking sucks your dad went through that "Workerism" wherever it comes up is a garbage ideologyhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1259965290848219136?s=19 …
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Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affectOrwell brutally mocked "workerism" in Animal Farm and how it's a fucking fundamental contradiction with what socialism was supposed to be for In the Stalinist Animal Farm Boxer the plowhorse works HARDER than he ever worked for the humans, until he DIES ("I will work harder!")Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @LadyIsak and
Yeah, I'm so thankful that he survived to retirement. His body is still busted but he loves growing tomatoes, going to museums (pre-covid), and studying history. Medicare/Obamacare is still too little too late but the only reason my parents are alive today.
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I'm glad for him
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