o oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168). In Marxs Communist Manifesto, Marx calls attention to change. The animals, at first, resisted the dictatorship of the humans and wished to govern themselves where all animals were equal. Like in Russia, the common people were tired of the rich getting richer while the poor got poorer. Animalism supported the notion that no animal was owned by another. There would be no animals better off than others. Also, no animal would live in despair. Communism flaunted the same policy. Since the people owned the government and the government owned everything, everyone had equal possessions. In Animal Farm, the animals owned the farm thinking that they were free from all human beings The need for leadership in this situation was so strong that the idea of total equality would be spoiled by the selfish. After driving out the humans from Manor farm, the pigs take on a leadership role. Snowball and Napoleon become the spokesmen for the animals. Snowball was a charismatic speaker that was idealistic about the revolution and felt that he could make improvements to the living conditions of all the animals. Napoleon was more to the point when he spoke and was crueler; he was driven by selfish ambition. He can be compared as a character representing Stalin in Russia. Both were very mean looking, didn't talk very much but always got what they wanted through force. He was underestimated by his opponents who always became his victims, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world found out about the many deaths that Stalin created in Russia during the Revolution. For almost 50 years the world thought that the Nazis had done the killing in Russia, when in fact it was Stalin. (Imse 2). Trotsky was an instructional sort of person and...
