The final form of the Seven Commandments, after all the revisions, is a single statement: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. This is one of the most famous sentences in English literature, and its power comes from its logical impossibility rendered in perfectly plain language. Orwell uses this sentence to make a specific argument: equality cannot simply be declared. It requires structural conditions that maintain it. Those conditions are: Accountability: people with power must be answerable to those they govern. On Animal Farm, the pigs eliminate all accountability mechanisms: committees are abolished, debate is ended, the vote is replaced by Napoleon's unilateral decisions. Without accountability, the stated commitment to equality becomes meaningless because there is no mechanism to enforce it. Transparency: what is happening must be visible. When the Commandments are changed at night, when trading with humans is hidden, when the milk and apples disappear without explanation, the animals cannot evaluate what their leaders are doing. Opacity is the prerequisite for exploitation. Rule of law: the rules must apply to everyone equally and must not be changeable by those in power. The moment Napoleon can adjust the Commandments to suit his behaviour, the law has become a tool of those in power rather than a constraint on them. Active participation: the animals who 'could not follow the argument' in early debates but simply agreed with whoever spoke last were abdicating their responsibility. Equality requires participants who are willing and able to engage with what their leaders are doing, which requires literacy, time, and sufficient freedom from fear to speak. Orwell's Animal Farm is ultimately an argument that good intentions are insufficient. Structures and incentives determine outcomes more reliably than character.