[Blood Red Lucario]

Originally Posted by TitaniumAnimations

I think your rather childish insults should remain to yourself, for your pubescent goading will not get me to lash out at you. On further thought however, it is not the fact that it is childish, rather it is because you are ignorant and will not listen to another opinion. You are as bad as a Catholic, you do not listen to something, and if you disagree with it you instantly spit it out and label it an evil ideal.

Anyway, in other news. Is it not human nature to think that you are the center of the world? We all at least go through a stage of it in our lives. And since not everyone is interested in the common good, and would rather work to sustain themselves, Marxism would never work.

The beef I have with Socialism is not the idea that everyone is equal to a certain extent, rather the problem I have with it is the economy. But, that is a totally different argument. The point is, there will AWAYS be someone out there thinking about himself and not about others, thus Marxism would never work.

And considering Animal Farm was written by a survivor of the Spanish Communist purges of 1938 named George Orwell, I think it is a rather accurate account of Communist mayhem.

Marxism works on paper because just like dogs humans can be trained to think differently. Once again a tendency to fall into a self centered pattern does not mean that pattern is guaranteed. Marx said that pretty much the people as a whole will be trained to not think self centered because of the mindset of the community. And we may never know it will work because its a slow process that no one can even follow correctly. Look at Russia. They read the cliff-notes and decided to skip a third of the process.

Kurt Vonnegut was a soldier in World War II and wrote a fictional novel on how he felt on the war (Slaughterhouse 5). An author's feelings towards an event that are portrayed in a novel aren't "accurate" to what actually happened they are strictly limited to the authors view. So even though Orwell did survive the Spanish Purges he only wrote how he felt about it not about what actually happened or how everything came into fruition. Ellie Weisel (sp?) was a survivor of the holocaust at least he wrote a factual account of what happened to him during his experiences he wrote about how he feels while telling us what actually happened to him. He didn't make the subject matter figurative he made a real memoir. Animal Farm is in the fiction section for a reason because its an opinion based book on human nature based on the author's views of human nature. He may have gotten those views from what happened to him but his views are not "accurate" to what was really happening in that period.