ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Statism, Democratic Socialism, Holodomor

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1AA3
• Professor: Roger Hyman

Document Summary

Capitalism: orwell was concerned with unregulated capitalism o. A way of modifying unregulated capitalism is to establish unions. Staism: state is supreme and individuals have to pay allegiance to the state. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war: orwell believes that poliics should not be about power and control but about the moral consequences (right and wrong) Themes: unequal distribuion of wealth, our lives are miserable, laborious and short o. Rebellion (same as social contract theory: orwell suggests that we need to reevaluate how we overthrow and create social contracts. Soviet regime markeing of plenty if we all operate this way we will be happy and prideful. Soviet collecivist social contract: happy, well-fed, working up to her potenial, producive. Rebellion will get rid of industry, banks, proit o. If all peasant women joined there would be a social contract that is in everyone"s best interest. Holodomor enforced starvaion of ukrainian peasants (1932-1933)