Marxism Animal Farm

As illustrated by Diescho, it is hard for a human society to properly function on its own without any form of leadership to act as a guide to reinforce the laws that create peace and order. Socialism, the way Marx interpreted it in his Manifesto, did not work in the Soviet Union not because Marx’s vision was inadequate, but rather because of how the theory was implemented into society. In this light, his socialist vision lacked the implementation structure, and, therefore, his Manifesto opened a void where an authoritarian leader could come into power and change the structure of a country overnight, as it was seen after the Russian Revolution with the formation of the communist party. That being said, Marx’s theory acted as a blueprint for the …show more content…
Orwell perfectly depicts this situation in Animal Farm, by illustrating that if one is not careful, even in a system that is meant to be fair for all like socialism, and if you don’t have someone guiding society through the implementation of socialism, then it can create a sort of leadership vacuum that allows the leaders to fill it with the ability to assume strict power over the people, otherwise known as an authoritarian regime. It was in this way that, similar to Stalin forming the communist party and assuming complete control, the pigs in Animal Farm appointed themselves as the leaders and began to take on the notion, “All animals are created equally, but some are more equal than others”, which is a playoff on words from the American Declaration of Independence. Overall, through Animal Farm, Orwell argues that no matter how good Marx’s ideology was in his Manifesto, leaders will not always follow his exact ideology because of the lack of description for how his ideas should be inserted into