Marxism contains various theories one being the theory of alienation. In this theory, Marx explains that because workers in capitalist societies don’t own the means of production they sell their “labor power” to capitalist who own them (Ollman). “Through labor which alienates them from their activity, product and other people, workers gradually lose their ability to develop the finer qualities which belong to them as members of the human species” (Ollman). Marxism and Animalism are similar as they both promote the idea of “egalitarianism,” or the belief that all people are equal in political, economic, and social life (Dictionary.com). Another common point between both theories is that they both speak of being owned by a higher power that owns the means of production. In Animal Farm the capitalist is Mr. Jones and all humans, as they are “the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch