What is animalism according to Animal Farm?1. What is Animalism 2. What do you think is the purpose of the text based on what you are reading?...

Since you are only supposed to ask one question here, I will answer the first one and try to incorporate as many answers as possible.  Animalism is the version of communism/socialist espoused by Old Major.  Old Major describes a community where animals are in charge and not subordinate to humans.  Another feature of animalism is that all animals are equal.  There are seven commandments:

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS

 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3. No animal shall wear clothes.

4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

5. No animal shall drink alcohol.

6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

7. All animals are equal.

These are the basic tenets of animalism.  They are intended to keep the animals from being corrupted by man, and to develop a society where all animals are equal.

Over time, animalism is corrupted.  The pigs take control of the farm and lord over the other animals, and they slowly chip away at the tenets of animalism by changing the commandments until they are all gone and there is only one.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL

BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

In other words, the pigs are in charge and all of the other animals are equally subordinate to them.