“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”(Fanon, 53) According to Marx the solution to the capitalist societies that we inhabit is Socialism, by transforming into socialist societies, where wealth is redistributed and equivalently shared throughout we will be able to solve all the other issues that are faced in our society. However, in the fable “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the flaws of the system are highlighted, we see that while Power
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Thus by documenting the possibility of human error in attempting to create a Marxist society, the novel acts as a warning to those that aspire to overthrow capitalism and enact Marxism. Marxism proposes the redistribution of wealth so that there would be a classless society where everyone has the same amount of rights and there is no impoverished. However as revealed in the novel, the very same proletariat that fights for the overthrow of the bouguesie class, then takes the seats of the capitalists and resumes with the unfair treatment of humans. We notice that Orwell brilliantly has the animals transform their commandments from stating that they were all equal, to that “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” We can see that greed transforms what was suppose to be great change, into assimilation of the same system. By the novel’s end, the farm is essentially the same as it was at the beginning. The “Animal Farm” is supposed to represent a Capitalist Nation, the one typically paralled to this novel largely is Russia, and their great revolution. They strived toward the ideal Marxist society, however due to corruption that comes as a result of power, the society transformed and instead of changing it simply changed who they had in the seat of …show more content…
The country fights for independence, so as to break free from the shackles that the colonizers ensnared us in, they rally for change, and justice and equality. However, the result typically is new individuals assuming position to re enact the same regime. The same inequity, injustice, the only change that is seen is the individuals that now occupy the seats of control. This is what Fanon describes in his novel “The wretched of the Earth” and explains largely what occurs in the novel. The idea that John Dalberg Acton, presents in his important quote about power, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Is invariably seen within the novel’s framework, because the idea of Marxism is to elect to some extent a dictator to oversee the country’s well being, the system is forever flawed. The beacon that is expected to represent change often misuses and abuses his authority, consequently rendering the country in a state of ruin or contributing to the revolution’s failure, in the case of
Thus by documenting the possibility of human error in attempting to create a Marxist society, the novel acts as a warning to those that aspire to overthrow capitalism and enact Marxism. Marxism proposes the redistribution of wealth so that there would be a classless society where everyone has the same amount of rights and there is no impoverished. However as revealed in the novel, the very same proletariat that fights for the overthrow of the bouguesie class, then takes the seats of the capitalists and resumes with the unfair treatment of humans. We notice that Orwell brilliantly has the animals transform their commandments from stating that they were all equal, to that “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” We can see that greed transforms what was suppose to be great change, into assimilation of the same system. By the novel’s end, the farm is essentially the same as it was at the beginning. The “Animal Farm” is supposed to represent a Capitalist Nation, the one typically paralled to this novel largely is Russia, and their great revolution. They strived toward the ideal Marxist society, however due to corruption that comes as a result of power, the society transformed and instead of changing it simply changed who they had in the seat of …show more content…
The country fights for independence, so as to break free from the shackles that the colonizers ensnared us in, they rally for change, and justice and equality. However, the result typically is new individuals assuming position to re enact the same regime. The same inequity, injustice, the only change that is seen is the individuals that now occupy the seats of control. This is what Fanon describes in his novel “The wretched of the Earth” and explains largely what occurs in the novel. The idea that John Dalberg Acton, presents in his important quote about power, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Is invariably seen within the novel’s framework, because the idea of Marxism is to elect to some extent a dictator to oversee the country’s well being, the system is forever flawed. The beacon that is expected to represent change often misuses and abuses his authority, consequently rendering the country in a state of ruin or contributing to the revolution’s failure, in the case of