Socialsim Socialsim is a way to organize society. The goal of socialsim is to create a society that has even amount of wealth and status. People are no longer split into different classes since everyone is equal. It is considered as the opposite of capitalism. Karl Marx is the first person that explored into socialism in his book "The communist Manifesto". He believed that eventually workers will overthrow the bourgeoise and the capitalist system, and finally reach total equality(Marx, K., Engels, F., & Stedman, J.G. (2002)).
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Socialsim in Animal Farm In the book, socialism symbolizes animalism. This can be seen how both socialism and animalism is to achieve for equality and democracy. Animals on the farm tries to aim for socialism by starting the revolution (Russia revolution), however after a short time of socialism, Napoleon (Stalin) to gained power and the farm went back to totalitarian and dictatorship.
Socialsim plays a huge part in animal farm. Orwell is a socialist, and he support the idea of creating an ideal society ruled by socialsim. However, in this book, he shows how it is hard to achieve because there will always be someone that will lead, such as Snowball and Napoleon. Although animals on the farm wanted equality, their lack of knowledge made them very easily influenced. Therefore, socialism couldn't be achieved in Animal farm. |
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