mc,
With respect to book bans, I took the liberty to do a little research. I offer it to you below to review if you would like.
https://pen.org/report/banned-in-the-usa-state-laws-supercharge-book-suppression-in-schools/If you researched this as well I would not mind reviewing the sources you came across.
Chief,
Before we get personal. Orwell, (Blair) was a professed Social Democrat, which happens to be the prevailing direction of a large part of Europe today. That doesn't mean in any way that he was statist or in the new understanding "Progressive". Animal Farm is a warning about communism which by definition is complete statism even if it is " for the people". If I am incorrect in this then please attempt to set me right.
Nothing to correct here Chief, other then just adding and highlighting that the goal of the rebellion on the farm was to set up a democratic socialist system whereby the wealth of the farm was to be spread across all the farm animals. All the animals supported this. It was the small faction of greedy pigs that corrupted the system into communism and intentionally mislead the farm's population about it, and then established a means of control to keep the farm's population from questioning it. The farm animals did not willingly "follow " a failed ideology. They were forced into it by the power hungry pigs.
