Talk:Let 'Em Eat Cake

Dictatorship of the proletariat???

It looks to me as though whomever edited this page in the past had this idea that the dictatorship in Let 'Em Eat Cake was intended by the authors to be a Soviet-style, left-wing autoritarian state. I don't think this is accurate. I think previous editors have taken license in saying this without a proper citation from the work. For example, one editor describes the government established in the musical as a "dictatorship of the proletariat", even though the expression does not appear in the source for the inline citation, "Let 'Em Eat Cake" [a song from the act I finale]. Nor does the historical expression "let them eat cake" have anything to do with authoritarian communism. Virtually every review I have read of the play is adamant that the dictatorship was intended to echo those of contemporary fascist countries, although a New York Times review of the 1987 Michael Tilson Thomas production uses the expression "dictatorship of the proletariat"-- casually, without regard to a specific passage from the play. I am trying to obtain a copy of the full libretto to review this myself, but I am quite convinced that this was a mistake on the part of a previous editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnarcichallyInclined (talk • contribs) 21:47, 15 March 2017 (UTC)