A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 26 02:57:52 PST 2002


Yoshie posted:


>Mr. Reed decided to turn Orwell's classic back on itself. In his parody
>Napoleon, the Stalinist pig dictator of "Animal Farm," dies, and his old
>rival, Snowball, returns transformed into a corporate capitalist dressed in
>cuff links and a blazer. "Tonight, I present an animalage of such erudition
>that all the wisdom of the village is now ours," Snowball says, announcing
>a new, decidedly free-market credo for the farm: "All animals are born
>equal - what they become is their own affair."

So basically he's calling Trotsky a crypto-capitalist or a capitalist stooge.

And what are Mr. Reed's politics?

Todd

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