Why does Animal Farm remain relevant?

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a book that needs no introduction. It is a parable on par with Jesus' parables. It is a masterpiece that stands apart from other fiction. It is a light hearted look at the terrifying Soviet regime. In 2000 years people will still be reading Animal Farm. But why does the tale of the animal revolt remain relevant decades after the Soviet Union it was based upon has collapsed? Communism has been vanquished yet Animal Farm still echoes.

Why do people resonate with Animal Farm so much? I think that it speaks to the fundamental truth of human nature and politics. And the truth is that humans are animals. No matter how hard we try to make ourselves in the image of the gods we are nothing more than apes. So the ancients invented religions and laws to restrain our animal impulses. But in the end nature prevails. Human civilisation is a veneer that soon wears off. In the end all humans reveal themselves to be wild animals and civilisation collapses. The Romans, the ancient Egyptians, the British and all other empire builders in the final stage become degenerate and sexually immoral and everything collapses. Once we understand that humans are wild animals everything will make sense.

Animal Farm remains relevant because it is a mirror in the face of the revolutionary and the oppressed. It is a prophetic book that illustrates how the oppressed will soon become the oppressor. The slave will one day become the enslaver. The Israelites who fled slavery from Egypt landed in Canaan and legalised slavery whilst committing a genocide on the Canaanites. The Maccabees fought the Greeks but a few decades later they took Greek names. The early Christians were persecuted by the Romans but as soon as they tasted power they became the persecutors and attacked pagan temples. Napoleon was part of the Republic but soon after gaining power declared himself an emperor. The American revolutionaries fought the British and turned around and continued the slave trade. American black slaves were freed and some went to Liberia, only to enslave the local Africans they found there. The African liberators fought colonialism then afterward became tyrannical and abused the people they claimed to set free. Like Polybius described with his idea of anacyclosis that it is inevitable that  the monarch becomes a tyrant, the aristocrat becomes an oligarch and the democrat becomes an anarchist. Power like the ring in Tolkien's Lord of the Ring corrupts even the most saintly revolutionary. 

I fell in love with Animal Farm so much I tried my hand at writing a fable about power and politics. My book is entiled The Animal Ranch. It is about African politics not the Soviet Union. Like in Animal Farm, in my story the animals revolt and chase the farmer away. But in my version, the animals fail to run the farm and fall victim to disease and starvation. In the end the animals regret the revolution and go and look for the man to bring him back so he can run the farm. My book mirrors what happened at the end of colonialism. The Africans and Indians wanted liberty from colonialism and they got their freedom. But freedom brought economic collapse, chaos and tyranny. And in the end the formally colonised people followed the coloniser to Europe and USA in search of a better life. If you are interested in my book you can buy it on Amazon. Link below.

Ian Manning is the owner of the Manning Ranch. One day the animals revolt and chase the man away. The animals select Damian the dog to lead the Animal Movement. But the animals soon realise they have replaced one form of tyranny with another. https://a.co/d/aD99ZHa