Orwell's diatribe is aimed at class enemies that he demonises as false-toothed tapeworms who give nothing in return. However Orwell's moral outrage offers no better compensation than Captain Pouch's pouch (see article) for his simplistic equating of functioning capitalism with theft. The treading of common green spaces by "feet of working-class children" that he envisions hardly sets the scene for a Tragedy of overgrazing of the Commons. Orwell's text could only be related to Hardin's essay if the latter debated for or against Marxist revolution, but Hardin does neither.