• all-knight-party@fedia.io
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    13 hours ago

    Had to read Animal Farm for school. Haven’t read it since then, so this could be a now incorrect edgy high school opinion, but I felt that its allegory was so obvious and direct that it had no need to be written and was a waste of time to read when we could’ve just directly discussed communism instead.

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      2 hours ago

      I think what is important about Animal Farm is that it’s simple and direct enough to allow discussion of the political system of all out communism. The discussion is what’s important.

      Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s lost when it’s placed on a school curriculum though.