Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
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Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He
sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and
economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed
that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why
there is ....
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.... impossible. The only way to establish
justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means
of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against
their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells worki ....
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