Rakhmetov
15th February 2011, 23:55
For years I've searched for this article on the web to send the link to people. I was almost going to transcribe it down word for word on my computer---that's how much it has fascinated me. Now I finally found it because someone posted online. :cool:
Indeed, at several points in the novel, the Invisible Man sounds a lot more like a radical revolutionary than a capitalist businessman. He conceives the idea of a Reign of Terror to establish and consolidate his power: "Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, … it is under me — the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch, — the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First." This is hardly the language of the free market. As Griffin's proclamation of a new era indicates, this is in fact the language of revolutionary totalitarianism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Eynlwn8inRIC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=the+invisible+man+and+the+invisible+hand+h+g+we lls+critique+of+capitalism&source=bl&ots=2BoXvqDLIw&sig=j_KZUbcz4s3xFMmeoZ9_w1hdSbY&hl=en&ei=vQ9bTbHaEcKt8AbOlYXEDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=the%20invisible%20man%20and%20the%20invisible%20 hand%20h%20g%20wells%20critique%20of%20capitalism&f=false
http://mises.org/daily/4688
Indeed, at several points in the novel, the Invisible Man sounds a lot more like a radical revolutionary than a capitalist businessman. He conceives the idea of a Reign of Terror to establish and consolidate his power: "Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, … it is under me — the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch, — the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First." This is hardly the language of the free market. As Griffin's proclamation of a new era indicates, this is in fact the language of revolutionary totalitarianism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Eynlwn8inRIC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=the+invisible+man+and+the+invisible+hand+h+g+we lls+critique+of+capitalism&source=bl&ots=2BoXvqDLIw&sig=j_KZUbcz4s3xFMmeoZ9_w1hdSbY&hl=en&ei=vQ9bTbHaEcKt8AbOlYXEDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=the%20invisible%20man%20and%20the%20invisible%20 hand%20h%20g%20wells%20critique%20of%20capitalism&f=false
http://mises.org/daily/4688