>No, they are popular because someone who lived 80+ years ago got it right That's a very charitable reading, Asimov had a very different interpretation in his

>No, they are popular because someone who lived 80+ years ago got it right That's a very charitable reading, Asimov had a very different interpretation in his not very positive but I think great review of 1984 (https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm) "The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed From then on, to the end of his life, he carried on a private literary war with the communists, determined to win in words the battle he had lost in action. During World War II, in which he was rejected for military service, he was associated with the left wing of the British Labour party, but didn't much sympathise with their views, for even their reckless version of socialism seemed too well organised for him. He wasn't much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism. Consequently, when Great Britain was fighting for its life against Nazism, and the Soviet Union fought as an ally in the struggle and contributed rather more than its share in lives lost and in resolute courage, Orwell wrote Animal Farm which was a satire of the Russian Revolution and what followed, picturing it in terms of a revolt of barnyard animals against human masters."