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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years 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 preimert1 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    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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