Mission Impossible: Socialism

  In my English class, we have read the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. One important theme depicted in this novel is the concept that maintaining socialism in any community is an impossible task. The idea behind socialism is that everyone gets a fair and equal amount of materials, money, and work. Socialism is also defined as no one having a higher social rank than anyone else, and this is where everything becomes complicated. For a community to function properly, there has to be organization. For there to be organization, someone has to establish this organization. Whoever this is will inevitably have a higher social rank than the others, and thus have more power.  We see many examples of this whole phenomenon in the novel Animal Farm  as the animals of the story try to establish socialism but end up failing as the pigs, with their greater intellect and cunning minds, take over and form a communist community.