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'''''Animal Farm''''' is a book written by [[George Orwell]] in 1946. The story portrays animals taking over a farm.  The book is controversial, with one side downplaying comparisons to the [[USSR]] and playing up Orwell's support for [[socialism]]. The other side seeing the stori as satirizing to the [[communist]] takeover of [[Russia]] and the betrayal of the people by their leaders, who impose a totalitarian system consolidating and perpetuating the power of those leaders.

'''''Animal Farm''''' is a book written by [[George Orwell]] in 1946. The story is a [[Satire|satirical]] [[allegory]] of the [[Russian Revolution]], particularly directed against [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin's]] Russia. The story's concept of "animalism" is used by Orwell to portray a generic view of [[socialism]], similar to that first expounded by [[Karl Marx]] (''Old Major''), who Orwell believed was naive in thinking that his philosophy would actually work.  Orwell, although agreeing with the overall concept of equality though socialism, was critical of Marx because he didn't take into account the greed and jealousy which would eventually undermine the entire philosophy.  This idea was shown through ''Napoleon'' and the other pigs, who, through persuasion and force became the dominant authority on the farm. When Napoleon outlaws the "Beasts of England", he is demonstrating the formal power of the state, and that socialism is no longer just a generic belief in equality made by everyday common animals, but is a greedy force for oppression run by the government.

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