Eliot worked for Faber and Faber at the time. He rejected the book, indicating that he thought Orwell's satire was off. He expressed it in this mind-boggling way:
"After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other
animals, and therefore are the best qualified to run the farm -- in fact
there couldn't have been an Animal Farm without them: so that what was
needed (someone might argue) was not more communism but more
public-spirited pigs."
Is he defending Stalin here? And wouldn't a more "public-spirited" pig be a communist pig? Not sure I get it, but I'm not as smart as all that anyway.
Via:cracked.com
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