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