VLVL defining terms

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:00 AM
Subject: VLVL defining terms


> >> Most absurd of all, of course, is the claim
> >> that the Khmer Rouge weren't communist.
>
> > That all depends upon how you define Communism.
>
> communism - a social and political ideology advocating that authority and
> property be vested in the community, each member working for the common
> benefit according to capacity and receiving according to needs
>

And you believe that this definition properly describes the Khmer Rouge?

Communist or fascist, where's the difference when it comes to dying? From a
postmodern point of view they're both just logocentric ideologies relying on
a hierarchical system of binary oppositions that can de deconstructed.

> Khmer Rouge - Cambodian communist movement that was formed to resist the
> right wing, US-backed regime of Lon Nol after the latter's military coup
in
> 1970
>
> Cf. also Rex Snuvvle - character in Thomas Pynchon's _Vineland_, a
> Californian graduate student of Southeast Asian studies who, in 1968, is
> obsessed by the prospect of a "true" Bolshevik-Leninist revolution in
> Indo-China
>
> best

But still no evidence from the text that Rex is dreaming of the Khmer Rouge.

Otto