A sketch of Pynchonian politics

[Jane O' Sweet]

Phil Wise wrote:


 I wonder if that's similar to the structure of the free
trade argument - that people the world over either they open
up and grab some of that action or remain terrorised.  Of
course, Pynchon is relatively silent on this, at least up to
M&D, which I don't know well enough to comment on, but the
similarity is quite striking.

Me: 

The similarities, if there are any, are dependent upon that
mass death, right? What is that mass death? 

 "Capitalism" it was said here, and repeated, "is not an
ideology".  Evidence of a totalising system's ideological
nature would be erased, for that evidence invites heresy,
disagreement, and contest, porovides an "unsettling
blackness".
> 
> It is unlikely that Pynchon is an all-the-way Marxist, because the providential notion of the perfection of society through the rise of the proleteriat led to totalitarianism in the USSR.  

 

Maybe he simply agrees with Weber on Marx and then, because
P is interested in Religion as politics/economics, he wove
Weber's (perhaps voegelin, spengler?) into his comparative
religion studies and his freud/jung/brown/marcuse? Maybe?
There are three books, besides Sasuly that would have given
him the presidential advisor, academics, so on...