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

[Shane Mage]

Brad DeLong wrote:
>...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.)...

Merely the central point of the book, that's all! (taking "Stalin,"
"Truman," and "Attlee" as synechdoches for their respective
ruling classes).

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even 
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. 
Weiner)