Thursday, August 12, 2010

Smith vs. Marx

During one of our frequent serious conversations about life, history, or current events, Quang brought up the fact that Huxley wrote many conflictions into the novel. One of which was the conflicting political and social ideologies that the society upheld. For instance the hynopaedic message "the more stitches the less riches" and the fact that they are all conditioned and predestined as embryos to fall into specific class in their social hierarchy demonstrates an obvious capitalistic presence. Against this was the ubiquitous thoughts such as "everyone belongs to everyone else" and the propaganda on moral beliefs indoctrinated into the the children like the death conditioning. Such communist thought obviously counters the ideas of a social hierarchy and free thought that normally accompanies capitalism. Therefore they are neither communist nor capitalist, such as the current state of China. Which is experiencing large economic growth and steep disparities between social classes while the still retaining Marxist ideologies and having strong censorship.

see look at them fighting for society

2 comments:

  1. ..."everyone belongs to everyone else" and the propaganda on moral beliefs indoctrinated into the the children like the death conditioning. Such communist thought obviously counters the ideas...

    This is the error of equivocation, a logical fallacy. The lines about everyone belonging to everyone else has nothing to do with absence of social hierarchy. The society of BNW depends on castes.

    http://www.fallacyfiles.org/equivoqu.html

    Where have you been all summer, Joaquim? I've been sort of worrying about you.

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