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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts) Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:14 PM Mar 2014

Orwell's "Animal Farm" online, for free.

http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/0.html

A quck read, and one of the best explanations as to why Communism has always failed.

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Orwell's "Animal Farm" online, for free. (Original Post) Nye Bevan Mar 2014 OP

Good find! Thanks for posting! JNelson6563 Mar 2014 #1

George Orwell was equally opposed to both Capitalism and Communism. Zen Democrat Mar 2014 #2

Right...O'Brien (in the book 1984) cites both the Nazis and the Communists deutsey Mar 2014 #3

A very very interesting person. Somewhat like another Brit eccentric, T. E. Lawrence aristocles Mar 2014 #4

Reading the book is a good thing. You're mind can paint the pictures. But........ wandy Mar 2014 #5

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)

1. Good find! Thanks for posting!

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:22 PM

Mar 2014

Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)

2. George Orwell was equally opposed to both Capitalism and Communism.

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:23 PM

Mar 2014

He was a fatalist. The book is an allegory about the doomed fate of revolution -- any revolution.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)

3. Right...O'Brien (in the book 1984) cites both the Nazis and the Communists

Reply to Zen Democrat (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:28 PM

Mar 2014

as precursors to Ingsoc.

If anything, Orwell (i.e., Eric Blair) was something of a disillusioned anarchist/democratic socialist.

aristocles

(594 posts)

4. A very very interesting person. Somewhat like another Brit eccentric, T. E. Lawrence

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:29 PM

Mar 2014

Look up his biography.

The British Empire gave many eccentrics ways to lead interesting lives.

wandy

(3,539 posts)

5. Reading the book is a good thing. You're mind can paint the pictures. But........

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 03:19 PM

Mar 2014

Sometimes you just cant wait for the movie..........
Animal Farm (1954)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/139115

Sure, it's old and not wide screen. Its done well. The animation is "old school" done by hand.
If nothing else to remember that we could do such things before Pixar.

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