Marxism & Totalitarian Dialectic

[Terrance]

"From the beginning  Pynchon's writing has been haunted by
an awareness of T.S Eliot's fundamental point--that a
totally secular culture is absurd and unworkable. Having
killed all the old Gods, we turn and, out of the strangest
materials, reify new and more terrible gods." Wolfley

"Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the
developing of weapons of destructions makes our present
dilemma plain: we either come to terms with unconscious
instincts and drives--with life and with death--or else we
surely die."

		Wolfley quoting Brown,  LAD

"Pynchon and Brown explicitly reject Marxism as a political
philosophy and theory of human nature, and for the same
reason: its materialism ignores the fact that the worlds is
projection od spirit, and its much touted dialectical method
is merely a cover for the perverted millennialism, itself an
excuse for totalitarian structures."

			Wolfley

Not able to say with  certainty, but I suspect now, more so
now, that Eddins' suggestion that P was influenced by Eric
Voegelin may be spot on. 

Kopcewicz, Andrzej. "The Rocket and the Whale: Thomas
           Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Moby Dick."
           In Proceedings of a Symposium on American
Literature, ed.
           Marta Sienicka. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz
University Press,
           1979. 145-50.

Chaffee, Patricia. "The Whale and the Rocket: Technology as
           Sacred Symbol."
           Renascence 32 (Spring 1980): 146-51.