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Both Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, and J. Edgar Hoover’s Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee make powerful arguments against communism. Each man used a different method of persuasion to convince his audience, both with their own strong and weak points. For a plethora of reasons, Orwell made a more effective argument against communism, demonstrating communism’s faults and inconsistencies that ultimately pointed to its ineffectiveness as a system of government.
J. Edgar Hoover viewed communism as inherently evil and a direct threat to the American way of life. He said that the communists in America were trying to establish a communist state which could only be achieved by a “bloody revolution� that called for “plenty of guns and ammunition� which he derived from their chief textbook, The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. According to Hoover, the communists began secretly infiltrating American society by adopting ideals......

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