I first read it in high school...over the years, I've noticed how my political sensibilities are becoming more and more like those of Benjamin's.

I've never seen the animated version from the '50s (I think it was the '50s), but I absolutely hated the TV-movie version from 1999.

I saw it first when I was about eight and then again, several times, in college.

the 1954 version:

changed the ending

I saw it for the 1st time last year, SMH but yes it was great.

betray the people they are supposed to be helping? That at the end of the day once people have power they start to like power.

Bryant

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

but i think it endures because all too often successful revolutionaries become as bad or worse as the powers they overthrew.