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SATIRE: The Insidious Ideology Lurking in a Dr. Seuss Classic

A tongue-in-cheek reading of "Fox in Socks" from guest blogger Ted Shideler

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Sally Shideler
Oct 02, 2022
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“Fox…Sox…Box…Knox…” With this stirring introduction, Dr. Seuss opened his thinly-veiled Marxist propaganda of Fox in Socks, as an opiate for the masses of children who’ve read the famous story as of its first publishing in 1965. Seuss, the nom-de-plume of Theodore Geisel, a violator of Prohibition laws as well as a phony doctor, paved the way for transl…

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