Louis Proyect writes: >> 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.
Actually, I was not trying to be witty, only trying to point out a factual inaccuracy in your post. I have not read Animal Farm in a long time, but your reading does not ring true. My sense of the tale is that the pigs, who monopolized and exercised power through a combination of fear and lies, were essentially the same as what they overthrew. So the moral is not the animals and workers had no business trying to govern their own affairs, but that power corrupts and always beware of those who claim the right to exercise power over you for the greater good. David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
