antw. Re: NOT P&N I don't believe in class distinctions anymore...

[Otto]

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From: "lorentzen-nicklaus" <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: antw. Re: NOT P&N I don't believe in class distinctions anymore...
>
>
> Otto schrieb:
>
> > When I think of those 60's and 70's communists over
> > here trying to tell the workers about the right and appropriate
necessities
> > of the working class, that's really been ridiculous.
>
>
>   it's not necessary to use harsh words like "ridiculous": compare the
rather
>   moralistic mode you and terrance are writing about this specific class
issue
>   with the way pynchon (who probably read herbert marcuse's essay on
liberation)
>   puts it in the introduction of slow learner:
>
>   "the success of the 'new left' later in the '60's was to be limited by
the
>   failure of college kids and blue-collar workers to get together
politically.
>   one reason was the presence of real, invisible class force fields in the
way
>   of communication between the two groups."
>
>   no blame game here, all pretty balanced: why?
>
>
>   KFL +
>

Hello Kai,

in my case this may have something to do with my discussions with people
from the KBW, KPD/ML and KPD back in those days. There were some people who,
among other things, were justifying terrorism and the existence of the
"anti-fascistic-Schutzwall," the Berlin-Wall and the deadly DDR-border.

Otto

Otto