Leadership Flashcards
“With their superior knowledge, it was natural they assume leadership”
Shows that leaders may be inevitable as all people in a community cannot be equal as in a perfect socialist nation due to the natural skills differences between people. However, the corrupting nature of the power a leader has is what leads to totalitarianism.
Snowball and napoleon couldn’t see eye to eye
Shows power struggles in early post-tsaric Russia and foreshadows problems for the farm under leaders who couldn’t work together and that one would eventually opt to get totalitarian power.
The pigs are accepted to control farm policies but under ratification by a vote
Equality is still seemingly upheld on the farm. However, as the pigs are ,in fact, leaders, this equality is fragile and was soon broken by a corruption of power
Snowball as Napoleon set up “secret meetings” in the barn
They take up leadership early on under the pretence of teaching the animals about Animalism but are really very early on already using Old Major’s teachings as a form of propaganda to brainwash the animals
“it had come to be accepted”
that the pigs should lead- perhaps communism was not and has hardly been successful because it goes against the “laws of nature”and people are always inclined to choose those smarter than them to lead which eventually results in dictatorships
