echoes of Pynchon's politics in Late Victorian Holocausts

[Doug Millison]

" [...] the personification of free market economics as a mask for 
colonial genocide [...]  In a self-proclaimed Benthamite "experiment" 
that eerily prefigured later Nazi research on minimal human 
subsistence diets in concentration camps, Temple cut rations for male 
coolies, whom he compared to "a school full of refractory children," 
down to one pound of rice per diem despite medical testimony that the 
ryots - once "strapping fine fellows" - were now "little more than 
animated skeletons ... utterly unfit for any work." "

-from http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/davis-victorian.html
CHAPTER ONE
Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By MIKE DAVIS

....plenty here to plug into a discussion of Pynchon's politics, re 
the "third world," genocide, & etc., as depicted in V., GR, M&D, & 
etc., if such a discussion were to be undertaken.
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