Debating Orwell
"... capitalism IS restored to Animal Farm, when Napoleon invites Farmer Jones and the humans to come back. I think it's even renamed Manor Farm."
Hitchens is having at a few questions posted on Andrew Sullivan's Book Club.
Last weekend, I posted about a new book by Christopher Hitchens called Why Orwell Matters. I will probably end up with the book this weekend when I'm finally in a good position to acquire it (more about that later). To revisit Orwell I read Animal Farm again last weekend - I may, under the best circumstances finish 1984 on my way back to Los Angeles. In the very least I'll be reading some of his essays that I found on this helpful George Orwell site. I have some new observations on Animal Farm that I will be posting at length about in the near future. These mainly concern the inflexible myopia of thinking the book only applied to Soviet Communism.
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