No, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" Was Not An Endorsement Of Socialism
Poor George Orwell. It's been 64 years since his death, and it still seems like not a month goes by without some fresh new abuse heaped on his work.
In January, I declared actress Kristen Stewart's comments on 1984 ("a love story of epic, epic, epic proportion") to be the silliest misreading of Orwell to date. Unfortunately, I had not reckoned with the great minds at MSNBC, who make Stewart look positively erudite.
MNSBC host and "Democratic political strategist" Krystal Ball was discussing Thomas Piketty's blockbuster book on income inequality Tuesday when she began riffing on one of Orwell's classic works.
"Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells [Piketty] to read Animal Farm," Ball said. "Animal Farm, hmm. Isn't that Orwell's political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the animals they need the food because they're the makers and then scare up a prospect of a phony boogie man every time their greed is challenged?"
This is such a willfully stupid misreading that it doesn't warrant much comment. However...Also read:
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