why is the book still relevant

The world's history is littered with autocratic totalitarian states; Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco....the list goes on. Today the threat of fascist rule always lingers somewhere in the distance. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Napoleon the pig gets a taste of power and Orwell has him walk down the same road as many tyrants. We can see this in North Korea (Kim Jong-il) to Libya (Muammar al-Qaddafi), the stories are similar.