All commentators explain that the central purpose of Animal Farm is to critique the failure of the Soviet state. Even though he castigates the Soviet version of socialism, Orwell is an argent socialist himself, who believes that the socialism in the Soviet Union was a corruption of Marxist ideals. However, Orwell still believed that socialism was the answer to the world’s problems of misery and oppression. Yet, even though Orwell did not intend it, Animal Farm is not just a condemnation of the Soviet system of socialism, or even of totalitarianism in its fascist, capitalist, and mercantilist manifestations. After all, these systems are not forms of civil government, but rather economic systems. What Animal Farm demonstrates is the failure of the political entity called the "state."

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