Animal Farm

I enjoyed reading this tiny book because it's intriguing and easy to follow, but after a while I realized that I wasn't looking at it too critically. I think I liked it as a critique of how power hungry individuals like Napoleon can corrupt a revolution. Given what I've read about Stalinism, the book seemed to fit as a critique of Stalinism. But I have considered the possibility that is not accurate and that Orwell was not all that familiar with the Soviet Union.
I enjoyed the book because it's concise and entertaining, and because at times it seems like a worthwhile critique of government structures that I find oppressive, but at the same time I find it conflictive because it portrays the working class as stupid and docile to make its point.
So Napoleon isn't really the main reason why the revolution is corrupted, the revolution is corrupted because everyone except the pigs and the dogs are stupid and they let it happen.
One could argue that Orwell's depiction of the working class as willfully stupid is a criticism of the many supporters of authoritarianism who are also working class and too stupid. That doesn't make it any better.