Pynchon and fascism

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Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> I fall off the wagon immediately  with your first sentence. Some
> political scientist many years ago first invented the word fascist to
> refer to something taking place in Italy (I guess). From there it just
> took off. Fascism like every word has no fixed and stable "meaning."
> Of course like Voltaire said, one could define one's terms. Force
> establish a meaning. Therefore, it's not a question of "knowing" what
> fascism is, but deciding what it is.

Been reading Orwell's Collected Essays. 

You can read them on-line. 

LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR (1942) is a good one. 

I like Poetry and the Microphone too. 

Kinda make sense that Orwell tosses the word Fascist about like kids
using the F-word do today. Actually kids use "F-ing" and Orwell used
Fascist-this or this-fascist. 

Why Chomsky and Pynchon and DeLillo and that entire generations of
writers,  playwrights, journalists, P-listers are so in love with the
F-word is not clear to me, but I imagine it has something to do with the
Korean Conflict.