If Charlie Brown Were a Socialist: On Beloved Argentine Comic Strip Mafalda - 3 Quarks Daily

If Charlie Brown Were a Socialist: On Beloved Argentine Comic Strip Mafalda - 3 Quarks Daily

Alex Dueben at Literary Hub: Mafalda is a young girl who hates soup and hypocrisy and loves democracy and the Beatles. She’s a precocious six year innocently questioning how the world works—often to the exasperation of her parents. She and her friends struggle to learn chess, try to become telepathic, and worry about war and overpopulation. After making a passionate plea for world she realizes that “the U.N., the Vatican and my little stool have…