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Upton Sinclair lamented the fact that nobody really got the point of The Jungle. I think after all this time he is about to be proven right.
by flmontpetit 7y ago
Upton Sinclair lamented the fact that nobody really got the point of The Jungle.
I think after all this time he is about to be proven right.
- prongletown 7y agoWell, the point of the jungle is that we need to form a socialist worker's state. Instead, everyone freaked out about sausages. He had a quote along the lines of "I aimed for the heart and hit the stomach" edit: > "I aimed for the public's heart," Sinclair later wrote, "and by accident hit it in the stomach."
- nitwit005 7y agoYou're correct that he complained about that, but the point was supposed to be about the exploitation and abuse of laborers.
- flmontpetit 7y agoThat's true, but "exploitation and abuse of laborers" and "tubercular beef" were ultimately caused by the same thing.
- jacobolus 7y agoUpton Sinclair’s complaint was that everyone cared about the health implications but didn’t care about the workers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Reception
- moate 7y agoYes. And people sought to address the specific causes of tubercular beef while leaving the rest untouched because they weren't cared about the exploitation and abuse of laborers as much as their own health.
- moate 7y agoI mean the same thing happened to Orwell. He was a democratic socialist who literally went to war with the fascists in Spain but people think Animal Farm is meant to be a rebuke of communism generally (and not Stalinism specifically).
- zosterops 7y agoThat point being, to promote socialism.