Animalism is Marxism translated: Man as the sole exploiter, labor as the source of all wealth, the harvest shared after the master's fall. The pigs, 'with their superior knowledge,' naturally become its teachers, which is the exact moment the creed acquires a priesthood.
The famous reduction: the commandments are too long for the sheep, so Snowball boils Animalism down to 'Four legs good, two legs bad,' and the birds are nearly lost over the wing question. Complexity is the first casualty; nuance defectors welcome.
The cold observation: Animalism's content never mattered as much as its shape. Any doctrine that divides the world into producers and parasites, promises a harvest, and anoints interpreters will produce the same farm, whatever words are painted on the wall. Ideology as mold, not message.
How much doctrine can a movement lose and still be the same movement?