Animal Farm: How do the character's in George Orwell's book relate to current events since 2000?

Like I always say, "It's not homework unless it's due the next day". I read Animal Farm for the first time last week over a period of two hours in a Starbucks Coffee shop. I must say George Orwell kept me extremely intrigued during that time. I knew that he was writing a satire about Socialism, Marx, Stalin, Trotsky, and the entire Russian Revolution, but even so I could not help myself from comparing the …

…be an entirely different paper to discuss. The bottom line is there have been, are, and always will be "pigs" in every society, and they will always grab for power in any manner possible. This is, intrinsically, the message of Animal Farm. Utopia is impossible, and as pessimistic as it sounds, there is no doubt to its certainty. I believe this was what George Orwell held to be true, despite his undogmatic foundations in socialism.