VL page 77 Sasha & Turn.2

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> > "The War changed everything. The deal was no strikes for the duration."
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> That's what he says in the "1984"-foreword too:
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> "The masses were only there to be used--for their idealism, their class
> resentments, their willingness to work cheap--and to be sold out, again and
> again." (ix)



"The War changed everything." (77)

This is Sasha talking about how the War changed everything in America. 
The passage from P's 1984 Introduction has to do with how
Orwell was thinking about the political situation in England, and more
specifically the British Labor Party, **well before** the Second World
War. P says that Orwell  regarded the BLP as potentially, if not already
fascist long before the War. 

And, P says that Orwell found an analogy between British Labor  and the
Communist Party under Stalin--"both [Orwell]  felt were movements
professing to fight for the working classes against capitalism, 
but in reality only with establishing and perpetuating their own power.  
The masses were only there to be used--for their idealism, 
their class resentments, their willingness to work cheap
--and to be sold out, again and again."
Pynchon Intro-1984.ix

For Sasha & Co. the War changed everything including how Sasha and the
people Sasha was organizing thought about politics. Sasha says that some
of them thought that when the U.S. mobilized for war under FRD, a leader
they thought no different than Hitler of Stalin, is was a last desperate
attempt by the Capitalists (see GR.374). Sasha quite working. With the
men heading over to the War, women like Rosie the Riveter took the good
jobs the
men left. Sasha didn't take one. 

Like, I mean,  doesn't nobody else get the feeling that Sasha is
"spinning a thick celluloid" here and Frenesi is clipping, adding sound,
lights, ...?