The fundamental and best comparison between Snowball and Trotsky is that both of them represent the intellectual angle towards revolution. Trotsky and Snowball both see the revolution as a testing ground for the theory that animated them. For Trotsky, this is Marxism and for Snowball this is Animalism. When the pigs gain power, Snowball is responsible for developing committees to run the farm. Napoleon takes the pups and develops his own secret police. Snowball is not really driven by power, while Trotsky was more concerned with how the revolution and post- revolution Russia would represents the theories of Marx and of Communism.
