"Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros”: revolución, libertad e igualdad en La granja de los animales de George Orwell

Based on a rereading of Animal Farm, published by George Orwell in 1945, the essay analyzes three organizing concepts: revolution, freedom and equality. It does not appear to have been in theoriginal plans of the author to divide the book into these categories, nor does it appear from its chapters that he has sought to define them in such a way that future philosophers, political scientists, economists, sociologists or historians could use them from their respective disciplines. However, the book is loaded with themes that deserve to be—and have been—worked by those disciplines to either account for Orwell’s concerns or to draw lessons on an ever-moving present. In this sense, the originality of the article is given above all by the simultaneous definition that is presented here of the chosen concepts. In addition, at the beginning of the work a brief biography of Orwell is shown to demonstrate, as is done at the end of these pages, that in the ideological eclecticism of the author—Victorian, socialist, liberal egalitarian—, a debt stands out, implicit or explicit, with Lockean freedom and Rousseaunian democracy.