We've been on Sabbatical for an extended period
and have been unable to publish in our normal manner.
So, we continue to review relevant, published articles
which mirror our thoughts. This is another in this genre.
It's gratifying to see that one of our younger generation
understands the threat of Socialism and Communism and
is familiar with relevant history.
When you read through this article,
you might recognize several players
in the current political arena who
promote the concept of the
Democratic Majority Rule concept.
Keep in mind the US was not formed
as a Democracy [aka: communism]
but rather, as a REPUBLIC!
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| Image by: Joanbanjo |
Vote: The Scariest Word in Orwell’s 'Animal Farm'
By: Grayson Quay IntellectualTackout.org
Published in: [https://stupidfrogs.org/articles/vote_the_scariest_word_in_orwells_animal_farm.html]
[Quay is a freelance writer.
His work has been published in The Washington Times, The National Interest, Rare, and Townhall. He is a graduate of Grove City College, a former high school teacher, and a current M.A. student at Georgetown University.]
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To the first-time reader, George Orwell’s 1945 fable Animal Farm might appear to be the story of a grand experiment that began as a veritable utopia before its betrayal by an authoritarian hijacker.
That’s certainly how many leftists, including one of my former professors, view the Russian Revolution on which Orwell’s animal revolution is based. It’s probable that even Orwell himself saw the Soviet Union in this way. In his memoir Homage to Catalonia, Orwell describes a revolutionary Barcelona in which private property had been violently seized, “almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt,” priests and business owners had been slaughtered, and “every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle.”
Orwell calls this Communist nightmare “a state of affairs worth fighting for.”
For Orwell, the Spanish Left transformed Barcelona into a noble “workers State” that fell from grace only when Stalin, who prioritized Russian national security over international Communist expansion, imposed his own self-serving agenda. In Animal Farm Orwell emphasizes the contrast between the days of peace and plenty the animals enjoyed under Snowball (Trotsky), and the sufferings they endured under Napoleon (Stalin).
In both Spain and Russia, it is Stalin who acts as Orwell’s villain, not Communism itself.
Yet hidden away in an early chapter of Animal Farm, before the reader has caught even a whiff of Napoleon’s totalitarian ambitions, a single word reveals the moral rot at the core of Communism.
That word, and all the horrors it implies, slips out as Old Major (Marx/Lenin) introduces the animals to Communist ideology, and lays the foundation for the coming revolution.
That word is “vote”: ‘
Major said:
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades,’
At this moment there was a tremendous uproar.
While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out
of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters,
listening to him. The dogs had suddenly caught sight
of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes
that the rats saved their lives.
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| Listen to Bernie |
‘Comrades,’ he said, ‘here is a point that must be settled.
The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits—are they our
friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose
this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?’
The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an
overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
Old Major begins by dividing all living beings into two categories: enemies and comrades, oppressors and oppressed, evil and good. Marxism depends on this division. Utopia, it promises, will arrive only when everyone in the “enemy” category is wiped out. Immediately, however, it becomes obvious to
Orwell’s four-footed revolutionaries that it is not self-evident who belongs in which category.
Are rats comrades to be defended, or vermin to be exterminated?
Or, in real-world terms, is the owner of a small family farm who employs a pair of field hands a proletarian ally or a bourgeois oppressor?
In his foreword to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, Jordan Peterson comments on the horrifying implications of this method of categorization: It is… necessary to pose the question:
‘Who, precisely, belonged to that hypothetical entity, “the bourgeoisie”?’
It is not as if the boundaries of such a category are self-evident, there for the mere perceiving.
Such a system is a double-edged sword: many of the animals who voted to include the rats as comrades are later executed as enemies.
[The United States Constitution protects individual rights that no majority,
no matter how large, can overrule. Our elections are protected by the Electoral College, which prevents the "majority" from overruling the Minority States and rural vote.]
Under Communism individuals do not matter, the collective has unlimited power to destroy all who oppose it. The animals’ democratic system eventually gives way to Napoleon’s dictatorship, but the method of categorization is of secondary importance.
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| Stalin executed 50 million "Enemies of the State" |
It is precisely because the animals believe in their own moral purity as the oppressed class that Napoleon is able to massacre his opponents and pacify the survivors with fear-mongering propaganda.
If the only thing standing in the way of utopia is the oppressor class, then the slaughter must continue until utopia arrives. If things aren’t perfect yet, it’s because enemies still lurk somewhere, and it becomes the responsibility of every good comrade to spy on his neighbors.
The whole system is a dictator’s dream. Contrary to what Orwell would have liked to believe,
Stalin and Napoleon did not represent the corruption of Communist ideology, but rather its
inevitable result.
Orwell failed to see this truth because he did not understand what Solzhenitsyn learned so painfully in one of Stalin’s gulags:
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
----ED NOTE:
As the Democrats move toward consolidating for the November POTUS election, we can see their strategy, tactics, and end game.
1) Promote Bernie as the radical, wild-eyed communist extremist to be eventually replaced by
2) Biden, an acceptable, doddering, befuddled "Moderate",
3) who will promote Michelle as his VP, after which he will resign, making
4) Michelle, our first Transexual POTUS, who will reward.
5) Crazy Lizzie Warren with the position of Secretary of State, while the only
6) [faux] "Combat Vet, Mayor Pete, will be rewarded with the Secretary of Defense position, who will enforce Martial Law.
The End Objective will be to install a Totalitarian Government,
And behind the scenes, we'll see Soros orchestrating.
There will still be elections, but the Electoral College will be abolished, and, as Stalin noted:
"It is enough we have elections;
It is not who votes that counts,
It is who COUNTS the votes."
The Democrats have become the
Communist Party of America.
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