Orwell wrote about the most respected and authoritative animal because he does not want to make his friends feel as inferiors or subordinates to each other.
The statement is in the context of authoritative animal as old major and his friends as comrades. The author Orwell has mentioned his friends as comrades because of the fact that he might have considered as Old Major as Vladimir, Lenin or Karl Marx and the Comrades as followers of Karl Marx. Old Major and his friends comrade also symbolizes the fact that the author considers all the animals as equals and companions who follow a similar organization which matches their ideology. Though there exists one leader who spreads his thoughts, but the thoughts are differently understood by others, and everyone is free to comprehend the thoughts in their own distinct ways. By propagating such thoughts, he wants to make them feel same and united.
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