Louis Proyect wrote: > You either didn't get my point or having got it, refuse to engage with it. I > told you that Russia was ruined economically by a civil war that included > the U.S. as one of the invading armies. This created conditions that favored > corruption, bureaucracy and all the rest. In Orwell's fable, there is no > attempt to explain Napoleon's behavior outside of some kind of quasi-Pauline > belief in the rottenness of man (or pig).
perhaps the pigs should have sued Orwell. David, do you take that kind of case? -- 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
