Posted on 04/30/2014 7:53:20 AM PDT by TheProducer
MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwells 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 MSNBCs The Cycle about the recent release of French economist Thomas Pikettys 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 Pikettys 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 theyre 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. Isnt that Orwells 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 theyre the makers and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar.
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Bwahahaha! What an utter MORON!
Not a moron. Evil. Taking a page from 1984, which I’m sure will also be spun into something the exact opposite to what it is.
Leftists are all lies. They have nothing else.
Just because the Marxists have succeeded in taking over our public education system doesn’t mean American Constitutional conservatives have to roll over and die without at least making a stand against evil.
Krystal Ball?Really?I don’t watch MSNBC but it sounds like they’ve been hiring strippers for hosts.
Kinda like saying Babe Ruth was a fantastic pitcher (winning 97 games in his career), or that Superman was racist, or that Leave it to Beaver was family drama. You can say stuff like this but it’s all bogus.
I stopped reading after I saw the name, Krystal Ball.
Lies for the LIVs.
I think you’re probably right.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I can see all of these being used by the left.
In the same vein, I suppose the movie Cocoon is a story of adolescent coming of age. And Star Wars is a Shakespearean tragedy about the massive loss of life of Imperial forces when facing some rebellious malcontents.
Liberals are the most delusional and cognitively dissonant creatures on the planet!!!! They are constantly altering and airbrushing history to suit their corrupt, evil, and malevolent purposes.
Fortunately we have Orwell’s very own explanations as to why he wrote the book and what he meant.
Seriously? That sounds like the name of a porn actress.
Not classic capitalism, in which a product or service is provided to another in exchange for some medium of exchange on an arms’-length transaction, but its corrupted and deformed distant relative, “crony capitalism”, in which some animals were more equal than others.
Failure to differentiate between honest business transactions and the closed and exclusionary manner of conducting business in “crony capitalism” is one of the great obfuscations being promoted in the world today.
Although I would not have summarized Animal Farm in that manner, in a way her description does sound pretty familiar.
Reminds me of the 'You didn't build that' pResident. The Big Government critters, and sundry 'Community Organizers' - believe that should get all of the economic resources from the working taxpayers farm animals - that are beneath their 'betters' in D.C. And their allies in the Media are happy to come up with any bogeyman (or 'look squirrel!' event) when needed to provide cover for ruler hog class.
But extreme Leftists like the ironically named “Krystal Ball” misses the point to everything in life. With a name like Krystal Ball you would think that she could at least predict the past-—maybe someone as ignorant as her should do a tiny amount of research into the history that she missed in school about the 100 million to 200 million killed by the Communists that she esteems so highly.
The rest of your post, though, was spot-on. I don't argue with your basic premise.
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