Banning Anti-Capitalist books in schools

 

The government aims to ban "anti-capitalist" books from schools. Is this different in principle to burning books which they disagree with?

Can we expect to see "Animal Farm", "Hard Times" and "Grapes of Wrath" thrown on the bonfire?

Will the Tories dress up for the occasion?

 

 

Sonnet 91 is blatantly anti-capitalist:

SONNET 91

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
   Wretched in this alone, that thou may'st take
   All this away, and me most wretched make. 

 

So Shakespeare could find himself upon the bonfire if Dominic Cummings gets his way. 

 

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