[lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....)

[Brad DeLong]

>Obviously any significant critique of Orwell as a writer/thinker in general
>should consider all his work, and some of critics even amongst what I've read
>clearly have read Catalonia, Williams included. But there's a place for a
>critique of Animal Farm, for example

There is? I would understand somebody saying that there's a place for 
a critique of the Soviet Union, or of Stalin. But a critique of 
_Animal Farm_? What's to critique? (Besides, that is, the declaration 
that Stalin on the one hand and Truman and Attlee on the other are 
morally equivalent.)

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Yours,

Brad DeLong