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The real point is that Russian workers are stupid, illiterate, and incapable of complex thought, and thus destined to be taken advantage of by anyone more intelligent, good or bad. Genuinely, Orwell dedicates a huge portion of the book to explaining just how stupid the animals are and uses that as justification for them allowing the Pigs to get worse over time.
Even ignoring the misrepresentation of history, the required assumption is that the workers were incapable of understanding anything to begin with.
Orwell was a purveyor of average upper-class
twit takes, and of course anticommunists still use them as circlejerk fodder 80 years later
In a lot of ways, he was the Ur-gammon
He's perfect fed material, which explains why he worked with British Intelligence. A perfectly controlled "opposition."