Corrupt leadership is the reason systems fail

They say that frequently fact is stranger than fiction. In 1945, George Orwell wrote Animal Farm.

The book reflects events leading up to the Second World War and to Josef Stalin’s extended and tyrannical reign over the USSR before that war. It is about the corruption of the Communist Revolution of 1917 by its leaders and argues that, in any revolution or system, corrupt leadership is the flaw that will bring it down.

It was, at the time, a satire on Stalin’s USSR where “everyone was equal” only “some were more equal than others”. It would seem that the People’s Republic of China is not that much different today. Looking at events around the collapse of the western driven global economy, one could be forgiven for having a sort of déjà vu moment.