Socialist Undertones in the Harry Potter series

[GrayMouser]

Originally Posted by Fool_of_a_Took

GreyMouser, I appreciate your critiques. To be honest, I should have pointed out that in this class, the Capitalism discussed was very much American capitalism instead of the idea of pure capitalism.

My comparison to the slave-master system described by Marx, the house elf predicament in HP and the (near) slave labor that capitalism literally lives on was more a reference to sweat shop and child labor than actual slaves.

A have to admit, I agree with your critique about the Malfoys not being pure capitalists, I fear that in my attempts to back up my thesis, I may not have fleshed out that thought well enough.

Should have added I thought it was good but also that I'm not an HP fan and have only read through Book 4, so I probably missed a lot of the more serious developments in the later books.

OTOH, when you consider my comments, remember I'm the guy who thinks not only the 'Scouring of the Shire' but also the Dwarfs in "The Last Battle" were attacks on the Labour Party/Socialism.

Any thoughts on why my submission of this paper to a Harry Potter fansite seems to have gotten me alienated? Maybe they're just not as open minded there as we are here on Entmoot. Hehehe

Agree with barrelrider- probably a lot of people just think "socialism" = "bad", and yes, particularly Americans.