"The Wild Children" by Felice Holman and it's Correlation to the Implausibility of a Communistic State
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
The latter, rather confrontational quote was written by Winston Churchill in an
attempt to describe the provocative state that communism entailed, more specifically the provocative state Russia had become after the Civil War of 1818 and furthermore as Joseph Stalin began his term as head of the newly formed, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Unequivocally, one of the strongest examples of this quote is the mass presence of homeless children that plagued communist Russia throughout its history. Known as the Bezprizorni, or wild children, these young adults and small children alike, became homeless as they lost their only relatives to the government directed Great Purge and the famines and wars that beset the people of this "Great Union". "The Wild Children", a book written by Felice Holman, depicts the life of a boy, Alex, whom becomes one of these bezprozorni after his family is taken away by the secret police. This great piece of literature not only captures the great struggle that these children had to face, but the plight all Russians had to succumb to in Communist Russia. How the communist leaders demanded utmost obedience and control over all factors of life and the lives of their comrades. How one was to be merely a comrade and nothing different, disallowing individualism, ownership and any aspirations or hope. How one was coerced not to think for themselves and rather blindly obey the position and perspectives of the leadership of Russia. How one was not to accept but rather, appreciate everything, they were to receive, without thought or hopes to something better. It ultimately, expresses the human desires and needs that are unaccounted for in a communistic society and proves it's inevitable disambiguation; a theoretically possible, yet realistically implausible government form that aims at the equalization of
The latter, rather confrontational quote was written by Winston Churchill in an
attempt to describe the provocative state that communism entailed, more specifically the provocative state Russia had become after the Civil War of 1818 and furthermore as Joseph Stalin began his term as head of the newly formed, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Unequivocally, one of the strongest examples of this quote is the mass presence of homeless children that plagued communist Russia throughout its history. Known as the Bezprizorni, or wild children, these young adults and small children alike, became homeless as they lost their only relatives to the government directed Great Purge and the famines and wars that beset the people of this "Great Union". "The Wild Children", a book written by Felice Holman, depicts the life of a boy, Alex, whom becomes one of these bezprozorni after his family is taken away by the secret police. This great piece of literature not only captures the great struggle that these children had to face, but the plight all Russians had to succumb to in Communist Russia. How the communist leaders demanded utmost obedience and control over all factors of life and the lives of their comrades. How one was to be merely a comrade and nothing different, disallowing individualism, ownership and any aspirations or hope. How one was coerced not to think for themselves and rather blindly obey the position and perspectives of the leadership of Russia. How one was not to accept but rather, appreciate everything, they were to receive, without thought or hopes to something better. It ultimately, expresses the human desires and needs that are unaccounted for in a communistic society and proves it's inevitable disambiguation; a theoretically possible, yet realistically implausible government form that aims at the equalization of