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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Banning Books and Bibles
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 12:53:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 12:53:53 1986
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> In article <349@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
> >> different *college track* english classes, based on whether our parents
> >> would allow us to read such stuff as:
> >> ...
> >> 	3. Animal Farm--Godless Communism.  Enough said.
> >
> >Sort of amazing when you consider that Animal Farm is a thinly disguised
> >attack on the Soviet Union.
> 
> Ah, but it attacks the Soviet Union from a Trotskyite perspective,
> not a capitalist perspective.  It supports the goals of the
> revolution; the good pig that is banished is clearly Trotsky (the pig
> that takes over is Stalin).  It attacks the Soviet Union for ending
> up too much like the West; at the end the other animals can't tell
> the pigs from the men.  I liked it; no intelligent arch-conservative
> should, since it attacks capitalism.
> 
> - Joe Buck 	{ihnp4!pesnta,oliveb,nsc!csi}!epimass!jbuck

Gee, I *loved* _Animal_Farm_, and I'm a fervent supporter of capitalism.
The book attacks the Soviet Union for ending up too much like Czarist
Russia -- I would hardly call Pig-controlled Animal Farm a capitalist
society.  The book supports the ideal of socialism, but makes it clear
that it's real easy for that ideal to be used as a method of getting
people to work hard for the common good when they would NEVER do so
for the farmer alone.

Clayton E. Cramer