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   I didn't find 1984 revisited, or whatever it was called, by Peter Huber,   
   very good, but, on the hand, I haven't actually read it, just flipped   
   through it.  Maybe I should actually read it.  It's an attack/reaction   
   to Orwell's socialism.   
      
   For a much better book in this mode, you have to go to the past to The   
   Scarlet Empire (1906) by David Parry.  It's an attack/reaction on Edward   
   Bellamy's Looking Backward (1887).  Much more amusing, dramatic and   
   better written than Peter Huber's trash.  David Parry was head of some   
   association of manufacturers, and, as you may guess, the nightmare world   
   described by him had it's origins in the "walking delegates" or some   
   sort of union activity of the time, leading to the slippery slope of   
   nightmare equality.  Everybody dies in the utopian world, in the end,   
   but our hero survives rich and retired, cured of his socialist   
   tendencies.   
      
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