did indeed
want to comment on Communism with his allegorical. The society that the
animals set up is analogous to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution. The ideas that
everybody should share equally in the wealth created by their collective labor is at the heart
of Marx's ideology.
But Orwell had more than that in mind. Marxism was
already well known by the time he was writing Animal Farm in the 1930's.
Nobody needed to have communism explained to them at that time. Orwell's goal was to show how
the pursuit of an ideal can be derailed by power-hungry individuals. The way...
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