VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

Pynchon's allusion to the brutality of "Uncle Ho's" regime (BLGVN "sent to
Vietnam some 500 Trotskyist cadres, none of whom, being to the left of Ho
Chi Minh, were ever heard from again" 207.27) is interesting enough in and
of itself, of course, but Rex Snuvvle, a student activist, being involved
with the remnants of a Southeast Asian Communist group who were to the left
of Ho Chi Minh in the late '60s cannot but remind one of the Khmer Rouge and
its supporters and advocates in the West.

People like Chomsky, for instance, a notorious apologist for Pol Pot:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896081001/inktomi-bkasin-20/ref%3Dno
sim/104-9221284-0811957

(watch the wrap)

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on 8/1/04 9:20 AM, jbor wrote:

> I'm actually wondering whether the "handful of exiles in Paris" that Rex is
> in communication with might include Pol Pot. A lot of the details
> ("Southeast Asian", "Bolshevik Leninist", "trained in France", "sent to
> Vietnam", "to the left of Ho Chi Minh", "exiles") seem to fit.

http://www.dithpran.org/PolPotegacy.htm

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pot.htm

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