It is also worth noting that although Orwell's stated goal with this book was to "expose the Soviet myth in words that a child could understand" that does not mean to say that the book is an anti-socialist book. Anti-Stalinist would be a better appraisal.
As an example, we could say that immediately after the revolution things weren't going too badly for the animals at all. They worked less and ate more. It was only when the revolution was bastardised by Napoleon that things started to go badly.
And if you want to know what he meant about the capitalists then it is clear enough as the farmers (or men) that were overthrown in the first place were the capitalists. It is all very clear in the last line of the book...
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."Other great missing the poing moments can be found here.
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