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Finally got this book along with the audiobook, so I'm switching over to reading it. Zinn immediately calls out not just "Great Man" history, but any history that identifies people with nations, states, wars, and armies rather than by real communities, conditions and movements. I was apprehensive about this book, but now I'm sure I won't be disappointed.

Catching up on this classic. This specific edition comes with 5 literary analysis essays, which I'm pretty excited to get to

The basis and concept of Animal Farm have been reduplicated and pondered over so much at this point that the entire plot was extremely predictable. However, it still expresses it and makes you think in a way that is very profound, and I think with the context of the surface-level message (how social movements, especially Marxist ones, devolve) you're able to see some of the deeper analogies like the types of working class people that Boxer, the rats, Benjamin, etc. represent and how that informs one's ideology. That's what makes it a classic, and a must-read for anyone anywhere.

Malatesta provides a comprehensive primer on the arguments for and against socialist politics. Though given from an anarchist perspective, it's not particularly prescriptive and the user is given every opportunity to relate to one of the many other characters in the story, representative of the different players in the discussion.