Are THEY capitalists and free traders?
Jane O' Sweet
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri May 4 11:49:29 CDT 2001
Doug Millison wrote:
>
> But I'm not saying They = capitalism, that's the straw man you're erecting
> and knocking down. I'm saying that Pynchon's novels contain a critique of
> the economic structure of the contemporary world, which just about
> (virtually everywhere now, except maybe North Korea but they'll have a
> Starbucks soon enough if they don't already, means capitalism and
> corporations. Pynchon's novels also critique quite a few other aspects of
> the contemporary world and human nature. I don't see Pynchon's novels
> celebrating the effects of currency or derivatives markets or corporate
> profits, but if you'd like to point out those story lines, characters,
> situations, please do.
NO!
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