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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 11 months ago
    I do have to agree that you can view Animal Farm as a cautionary tale about Crony Capitalism, which is hard to distinguish from communism other than the absurd notion that the entities are actually privately owned (how can it be truly private when the success/failure depends on government largess and insider knowledge and not free-market forces?). Do you not see how some businesses (solar, financial, "green") are more "equal" than others?

    Granted, she's a bubble head, and she probably believes that that's how all capitalism functions, so you can't hardly blame her naivete.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 11 months ago
    This is a new Marxist talking point.

    Andy Serkis is doing a movie remake of Animal Farm with this same message.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-ta...
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    • Posted by preimert1 9 years, 11 months ago
      So, two new assignments for Common Core: 1) Read Animal Farm in its original and compare it with the Serkis film. Has Serkis subverted its original intent? Compare similarities and differences of Capitalism and Communism.
      2) Read Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" and reduce each of his 5 examples of tortured prose into sentences of 10 words or less.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 11 months ago
    I have to agree with her on concentrated power in the hands of a few. She did not take the next logical step however. She should have began a new rant advocating for Individual Rights coupled with a government limited to a police force, a military force, and a system of courts as the antidote to tyranny. All tyranny.
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