It's been decades since I read it, but my recollection is that the moral of AF is basically fatalism. Efforts to do radical good come to grief
because of human nature. Maybe that's what Louis is saying too. Of course the kids -- including my daughter -- are told by the teacher it's about communism. So now the little one is anti-communist. Imagine her finding out that Mommy and Daddy were communist. (Were as in past tense, as in pre-1980.) As somebody else said a long time ago, whatever you think of those books, you never forget them. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Devine > Sent: 08/18/08 02:16 pm > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Animal Farm > > Louis Proyect wrote: > > I know that you are attempting to be witty, but my point remains. The > animal > > farm fell apart because of hubris not because the death and destruction > of a > > civil war. Animals and workers had no business trying to govern their > own > > affairs. They were overstepping their bounds. That's the moral of the > tale. > > _Animal Farm_ is clearly not as good as _1984_ (at least to my eyes), > which is probably why it has been favored over _1984_ among the > anti-communists. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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