Animal_Farm_Vs._Marxism

Animal Farm Vs. Marxism Animal Farm versus Marxism In the movie Animal Farm, writer George Orwell reflects the life of a small group of animals living together on a farm. He depicts the social actions of each animal and gives them individual qualities, personifying them as if they were able to function as humans. With each animal able to reason and act on its own, Orwell progresses through the story with a plot closely satirizing beliefs by Karl Marx, a great social and economical philosopher of Russia. Orwell illustrates the four concepts underlined in Marx’s Das Kapital discretely as they intertwine with events in the story. They are the theory of history, the labor theory of value, the nature of the state, and the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the following paragraphs I will compare and contrast the relationship between Orwell’s Animal Farm and the philosophies of Karl Marx known as Marxism. In Marx’s theory of history, Marx believed that throughout all of time there has been an ongoing struggle between the oppressed and their oppressors. He also alleged that this class struggle for the control of labor and productive property, and the constant conflict between the bourgeoisie and the farm, animal, marx, animals, marx’s, jones, proletariat, farmer, theory, story, communism, value, society, orwell, labor, history, government, between, state, people, capitalism, bourgeoisie, working, workers, toward, rule, order, nature, napoleon, marxism, life, lead, even, dictatorship, concept