Posted on 04/29/2014 7:56:19 PM PDT by Nachum
MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwell’s famously anti-communist novel “Animal Farm” is an allegory for capitalism run amok, immediately setting the hair of literature professors across the country on fire.
Ball spoke on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” about the recent release of French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues capitalism is intrinsically unfair and advocates a global wealth tax to level the playing field.
Ball noted that Piketty’s claims have been met with some criticism, which she felt was undeserved. “Piketty has predictably gotten the full Cold War treatment,” she claimed. “The National Review calls his book ‘soft Marxism,’ and Lord only knows what they’re saying at less responsible outlets or the comments section.”
“Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells him to read ‘Animal Farm,’” she noted. “Animal Farm? Hmm. Isn’t that Orwell’s political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the other animals they need all the food because they’re the makers, and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar.”
In the “Animal Farm” written by renowned British political writer George Orwell in 1945, a group of farm animals overthrow their human owner and declare “All animals are equal.” Food is evenly distributed and political decisions are made by the community.
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Bone-crushing stupidity.
Dear Krystal,
Take a breath now and then - your brain isn’t getting enough oxygen!
Welcome to the wonder, just ‘fabulous1’ world of post structuralism.
It is similar to Wonderland, where “words mean what I ant them to, neither more nor less”!
Well we have plenty of Cheshire Conservatives so all we need is Alice, the Mad hatter and the March Hare. Perhaps serve them TEA.
It’s a libtard thing. In the State of Washington, they are teaching in the schools that capitalism as the reason why there are so many poor in America.
. . . which brings up another book by Orwell - 1984.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DEMOCRATS ARE PATRIOTS
MSNBC host Krystal Ball is one smart cookie.
Didn't she work in strip club before the MSNBC gig?
That name sounds familiar.
If you could get Donald Sterling to do that, their little brains would explode.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DEMOCRATS ARE PATRIOTS
-Liked that and put it on Twitter.
MSNBC Host Claims Orwell’s Anti-Communist Novel ‘Animal Farm’ Is A Tale Of Capitalist Greed [VIDEO]
MSNB-Stoopid
Nope, not stupid, It’s Saul Alinsky 101- always accuse your opponent of your own misdeeds.
MSNBC
MSLSD
MSDNC
PMSNBC
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PING!
Kristal’s Ball is cracked. She can’t tell capitalism from Stalinism.
What can one expect from somebody named Krystal Ball who probably got her start in the public eye giving lap dances.....
UVa graduate...
HER? They gave her a show on MSNBC?
She’s that woman that ran for Congress (D) in Virginia and those pictures came of out of her drunk at Christmas and apparently preparing for a threeway with her husband and another woman.
I predict this is going to be a common thing with the next generation of Congressional candidates. Wait till the first Congresswoman gets a sex tape leaked by an ex-boyfriend.
Sorry...I can’t get past the name....”Krystal Ball”?????
If Ms. Ball thinks that Animal Farm is about capitalism, she would be wise to read Orwell's own words. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, he described Animal Farm as, "un conte satirique contre Staline", 'a satirical tale against Stalin'.
Ms. Ball's 'krystal ball' must be cracked, else she is mistaking Animal Farm with Animal House, which did contain some underhanded comments about the US and capitalism! Her comments remind me of:
I won't post the photos of her then husband sporting a Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer inspired dildo on his face, because that would be inappropriate.
Bender, were you at that party?
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