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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:58 pm
I've finally settled down and got myself to read it through to the end. It's beautifully written.
However, doesn't anyone think that the setting was over exaggerated? Communism in my own country was never that serious, and we had Stalin as a ruler.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:31 pm
The writer was from the country in question, and wrote a book about it... read We the Living. Conditions were pretty damn serious biggrin
Keep in mind Anthem is far in the future, a speculation as to what would happen if the communists achieved the world state they said was required for the true nature of communism to come out. In other words, Anthem's communism is a communism where they don't get the benefits that automatically accrue just from being in a world where some semblance of capitalism exists somewhere. Stalin, Lenin, etc. do not have any right to credit for the capitalist inventions they'd stolen that hadn't yet decayed as they inevitably would.
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:15 pm
I agree, with both. But since I'm in a nitpicking mood, the very fact that you had Stalin as a leader kinda ruled you out from collectivism, since the very act of being led by one person means that you don't follow the will of the people. XD
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:48 pm
I think just for the fact that communism could of been that bad if a event in history was won, but it was lost so so was there communism strict on a whole. i believe the anthem was beautiful the character so complex but simple. i don't know about the Stalin i live in America and not doing any real hard times unless you count now while a possible world war three goes on. I think the fact that it was set in the far future we should account for the strictness that was implicated.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:06 am
Hello, I'm new to this guild, but let me suggest something. If Anthem was too exaggerated to believe, read the Fountainhead. Instead of the world following public opinion, society does.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:40 am
Hello and welcome. And this is a good suggestion, Anthem is the only futuristic thing Ayn Rand wrote I think, unless some of her early writing was in the vein too since I haven't seen the stuff written before We The Living. However, Anthem is here rather than other things she wrote due to it being relatively short and in the public domain.
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