The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical 1930s Stalinists. Thereby, they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled.
-Rurik
ReplyDelete"they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled."
...and yet, despite all of the failed Marxist regimes throughout history and the world today, a good half of our elected representatives and slightly more of the population think that changing our republic into a totalitarian Marxist "utopia" is a good thing.
Someone needs to tell these people to go read a couple books on the subject starting with "The Gulag Archipelago".
Nemo
Books are so 20th century. Facefuck and Twatter are much better sources of insight and information, don't you think?
DeleteOne of my favorite reads. I read it about every ten years or so. Also, Watership Down is a tremendous read.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about those nasty capitalists is that they got rich by providing people with a product or service at a price that they were prepared to pay. Those people handed their money over voluntarily for something that they wanted at an agreed price. The State just helps itself to your money and you pay whether you want what they are offering or not.
ReplyDeleteTheoretically, yes, prices are "agreed upon". In practice, not so much - there are often thumbs on the scale, so to speak. Price collusion and market manipulation happen, to give but two examples. Not always, and not with every product or service, but it does happen. And many of those capitalists were only too happy to have government get involved in the transactions, since it was a good way to keep competition minimized or eliminated.
DeleteVictor Davis Hansen and Devin Nunes are neighbors in the CA Central Valley. I like them both; straight thinkers. MAGA 2022
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