Animal Farm and Communism

     In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals are inspired by an old boar to overthrow the humans and run the farm they live on by themselves. However, a majority of them quickly find themselves under the rule of the pigs and they end up right where they begin. The premise of Animal Farm is derived from the Russian Revolution which resulted in a government that left the people worse off then they were before. Many of the characters in Animal Farm are based off of real people. For example, Snowball represents Trotsky, Napoleon represents Stalin, Boxer represents the hardworking citizens, and so on. Many of the events in Animal Farm also depict real life situations, such as Snowball being chased off the farm representing Trotsky being exiled from the U.S.S.R. I believe that George Orwell mimics the happenings of the Russian Revolution to make his warning about communism more clear. By using real life, Orwell shows his audience that even though communism might seem like a fair economic policy, it has happened before and the results were not what people had hoped for. 

    Communism was thought of by Karl Marx and advocates for all property to be publicly owned and social classes to be discarded of, essentially making everyone equals. The issue with this is evident in the novel when the pigs, who are more intelligent than the rest of the animals, take over the farm. Through promising animals that they know what's best for the rest of the animals, the pigs are slowly able to gain more control and enjoy more luxuries while the rest of the animals stay in the same position. They are able to control the animals even better than the humans because the animals truly believe that what they are doing is in their own interests, which makes them work harder and for less reward. This cumulates to an absolute takeover by the pigs in which they declare some animals more equal than others and the other animals can't even tell them apart from the humans. In this way Orwell makes his final argument that the communist society is even worse off then the one that preceded it and we should be careful before we allow anyone to take over our country.