The Revolution Betrayed?

[Random]

Gurrier explains to Taxamo, that the nature of 'getting to the other side' is immanent in the term 'crossed the road' and the redundancy of the language used creates a false expectation that results in the aufheben of our visualisation of the chicken-in-itself

 

[past caring]

I think the basic thing that provides the leverage for the satire in this case is the obvious gap between WP's theoretical position on the Iraq and their practical ability to implement it. The fact that they are advocating a position which they have no intention of carrying out makes them sitting ducks for satire - which is why I think this stuff works. The 'famous five' setting is just colour.

If you're going to deconstruct, at least get it right.

The reference is actually to William (as in "Just William") and his gang, the Outlaws. And the reference is apposite, it's far more than "just colour", precisely because William tried to create an imaginary world where he and the gang as, variously, red injuns, pirates, cowboys, took on authority in guise of the adult world. William's efforts were invariably undone - either by the insistence of Ginger on seeing the world as it is, Violet Elizabeth insisting on being allowed to play the role of a princess ("or I'll scweem and scweem and scweem until I make myself sick") and William's mother forcing him to wash behind his ears....

There was always, in other words, "an obvious gap between the Outlaws' theoretical position on the adult world and their practical ability to implement it."

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There is, of course, a Just Wiliam story in which William becomes a Bolshevik.

 

[Random]

There is, of course, a Just Wiliam story in which William becomes a Bolshevik.

You're fucking with me! Which one?! Is it in the 'dictatorial, red terror', style?

 

[charlie mowbray]

There was also a Thomas the Tank Engine story in which a red engine (of course) went Bolshevik and eventually was derailed!!

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You're fucking with me! Which one?! Is it in the 'dictatorial, red terror', style?

I can't remember the name. A Google search turned up a Mark Steyn column so I didn't look any further, but I'm sure if you ask on Books, somebody will know.