VL is about Work (Marcuse and Vineland's Electrican).2

Richard Fiero rfiero at pophost.com
Sat Oct 18 20:15:45 CDT 2003


Terrance wrote:


>Terrance wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > However the left thread portrayed in Vineland is very much the
> > > anti-capitalist one.
> >
> > Easy enough to say, but can you provide evidence to support this claim?
>
>
>BTW, when I use the term "Left-Wing" in these posts I am talking about,
>
>1. Communists
>2. trade unionist who did not belong to Communist organizations (front
>of otherwise) but who were intellectually and emotionally socialists.
>3. Fellow travelers or those individuals who agreed with the Party
>position on a variety of issues, trade union & etc., but were not
>Communists, either formally or philosophically.

I could send Terrance a copy of Vineland since he seems to be lacking one.
What if we restricted ourselves to the terminology, 
descriptions and implications that we might actually find in 
the text? Mike Weaver's response is much appreciated. 




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