The Five Legged Horse

The type government that I think that Nancy Farmer is using The House of the Scorpions is communism. She especially uses in the chapter, the five legged horse when Raul says " we must all row together to reach the shore" ( Farmer 273). This explains communism because they have to come together as one to get to shore, like in communism today everyone has to be on the same page so that they can have a communist government.