What Pynchon wrote?

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Phase 2 (ix-xv) describes "Orwell's intention" in writing the novel as a
> response to current events, hence the relationship between text and
> context. P again sets up oppositions: real/phony antifascism,
> dissident/Official Left, a "critique" of what passed for socialism under
> the post-45 Labour Govt (opposed to an earlier "honourable struggle").




Why does P set up these oppositions? 

As others have noted, his attempt to (construct oppositions?) situate
Orwell around the term "fascism"  is problematic. 




In Spain (36-37) Orwell realizes a difference between real and phony
antifascism. 


Well before W.W.II (36, 37?) he also considers the official left and the
labor party potentially, if not already, fascist. 

P says Orwell thought of himself as a member of the dissident Left.