Compare/contrast Old Majors speech and the first four paragraphs of The Communist Manifesto.

's speech
has parallels with the first four paragraphs of The Communist Manifesto.
Old Major states the plight of the animals is one of oppression, enslavement, and
exploitation:

We are born, we are given just so much food
as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work
to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we
are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or
leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery
and slavery: that is the plain truth.

In The
Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels write:

The
modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away
with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new
forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

This tract
sees class oppression occurring in nineteenth century...