VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[joeallonby]

May I suggest:

<http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/057520.htm#top>



and to the left and right of Ho

<http://www.vietquoc.com/0007vq.htm>

<http://www.oberlin.edu/stuorg/twh/ho.htm>

<http://www.vietquoc.com/>

But I highly recommend the Chandler book.


Peace
Joe

on 1/8/04 7:47 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 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)
> 
> best
> 
> 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
> 
> best
>