How does Orwell expose the evils of Communism/Russian Revolution in Animal Farm using irony as well?
well firstly Animal Farm isn’t about the evils of communism, so you’re question is flawed. It’s about the evils of totalitarianism, the USSR, as well as, to a lesser extent, the evils of capitalism, let’s not forget Orwell was himself a socialist, why would he write a book attacking an ideology he supported? In fact many publishers rejected Animal Farm when it was written seeing it as an endorsement of Trotskyism (a form of communism) Secondly they aren’t similar at all socialism and communism have nothing to do with totalitarianism. Communism and socialism are based on a classless society, totalitarianism, by it’s very nature, requires a ruling class. These 2 ideologies are totally incompatible. The whole point of animal farm is to defend socialism by showing that the USSR was totalitarian rather than communist, not to attack socialism. to quote Orwell “nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country”
