Animal Farm

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   In its original form, expounded by Old Major, Animalism celebrates equality among all animals with no class distinctions between, say, pigs and horses. This loosely corresponds to Marx’s vision of the collapse of class distinction between the owner of capital and the proletariat. With Animalism, animals will no longer work for humans, and all animals will be equal; with communism, workers will no longer work for capitalists, and all workers will be equal.  And in both cases, the workers will own the means and the products of production, with the state / farm providing for them in old age or sickness.  Of course, Orwell criticizes this idea, arguing in the novel that it does not work because of the propensity in humans for power.

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