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Pros And Cons Of Communism In Animal Farm

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After the destruction of the American society, we must rebuild our government, taking extreme caution not to make the same mistakes as past societies. For the new government, our best choices are capitalism and communism. In theory, capitalism gives the opportunity to work hard in order to succeed, while communism makes everyone equal and therefore happy. However, both of these government systems have many flaws in practice. We all grew up in a mostly capitalist society that contained small elements of socialism, a government that focuses on giving everyone equal opportunities to succeed in life, but to a lesser extent of communism. However, socialism often morphs into communism in theory, and we will not include it as a starting government …show more content…

Animal Farm is an allegory to communist Russia throughout the early to mid 1900s. Led by Old Major, a wise pig that represents Karl Marx, the founder of the socialism, the animals on Manor Farm try to establish a self-sufficient farm run by animals with no outside human contact. This “self-sufficient farm” called Animal Farm was focused on creating a system where everyone is equal and happy, and no animal could be above any other animal. However, what happened in Russia as well as other communist countries, was that the interim government that existed to facilitate the change to socialism became venal and didn't care or pay attention to the social equality of all the people. The interim government, represented by pigs in Animal Farm did not give up their power, leading to the oppressive governmental system called communism. Additionally, in Animal Farm, the communist “pigs”, Snowball and Napoleon, did not pay attention to the growing social gap as they grew more powerful on the farm and ended up going against their original philosophies to keep all animals

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