1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Dave Monroe]

This hard hardly been overlooked here, if only beacsue
I've foregrounded it myself on several occasions. 
Precisely that JFK SL reference, for example.  GR's
possible dialogue with Marcuse.  And so forth.  The
price of liberty is eternal dissidence, it seems ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> ... what is often overlooked or evaded is that
> political critique in Pynchon's fiction and non-
> fiction (as in Orwell's) isn't restricted to
> Republican and Conservative governments: Truman,
> JFK and LBJ cop serves in P's work as much as, if
> not more so than, Reagan and the Bushes do.
> Likewise, Leftist political organisations, such as
> PR3 and 24fps in _Vineland_, and anti-Establishment
> cabals like the Tristero and the Counterforce, are
> satirised quite scathingly.

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