Posted on 04/30/2014 7:53:20 AM PDT by TheProducer
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 (ugh) 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.”
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An MSNBC host. Is there any need to read further?
It won’t be long before we hear that Winston Smith was a right-wing extremist.
HOT?? It's 450 degrees F right now...one more degree and we're cooked!
FMCDH(BITS)
Krystal Ball and Al Sham-ton... The janitors at MSNBC are there to raise the average IQ of the place...
She dances around polls.
Krystal Ball?? She kept her porn stage name?
Oh I get it, she dropped the ‘s ‘at the end.
Piketty’s book is free, I assume.
I suspect and hate to admit that you may be right. I feel more and more like a frog in a pot full of water on a lit stove.
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