Christmas Carol: Dickens’ Slap at Victorian Morality

December 26 2008 by ascetorix_ariz20 in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

Dickens’ story—like much of this great author’s body of work—packed a powerful indictment of a young, freewheeling capitalism. Notably, the villain-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge, was a moneylender, a financier, who eventually sees the light, quite literally, and mends his ways. In real life, such “epiphanies” are rare, as ruling classes, despite exceptions, put self-interest above all [...]

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