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Parables for Socialists-5 —The 1984-5 Miners' Strike and the Fate of the Pet Pig
Submitted on 9 April, 2007 - 18:17
By Paddy Dollard
In Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure, there is a strange, affecting scene, in which the butchering of a hand-raised pig is described. It is told with great sympathy and empathy from the pig’s point of view.
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