A short book that has lost none of its weight. Rendering political collapse as a fable is what makes it durable. The animals are not metaphors for specific people. They are the shapes power tends to take in any group. The book ends, famously, on a single image. Pigs and humans, indistinguishable across the table. Most of the rest of the book is the long argument that the image is inevitable.
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