Yeah so one of George Orwell's best essays was his profile of Charles Dickens from the POV of leftist politics and asking whether Dickens was a friend or foe to revolution And this is a recurring theme through all of Dickens' work - balking before really calling for change
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Yeah see this is what gets me When Young Scrooge defends himself to his fiancée saying he's just responding to incentive - the world keeps screaming threats at him for what it'll do to him if he becomes poor, and he's just rationally responding to those threats - he is correct
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Scrooge is a product of the system he grew up in He, himself, isn't morally that different from the scary evil street urchins Dickens represented as creations of "Ignorance" and "Want" It's the same thing, it's all one system, Scrooge is also a product of Ignorance and Want
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Dickens was, in many ways, actually pretty conservative and genuinely did live in fear of the impending wave of street crime committed by hardened superpredators Oliver Twist was his attempt at dealing with the subject and it's, as we say, problematic
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