narodniks, USSR and anarchism in Pynchon / situationist int'l?

[Cometman]

 --- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:

 > Narodniks were members of the Narodny Volya (People's Will)
> movement, a peasant- based pre-Marxist revolutionary movement.  They
> introduced bomb-throwing, but also had a mystical, religiously
>influenced side. I believe suppressing the Narodniks was one of the
>first things the Bolsheviks needed to do.
 
 
 ...in addition to suppressing the anarchists...

 to me the Russian Revolution looks like Communism done by people who
didn't really like Communism (or people, for that matter)
 interpreting all the Marxist credos in the bloodiest, most senseless
way imaginable - it's almost as if they were actually diehard
Capitalists bound to prove Communism wouldn't work...

OTOH I think that when you impose a system on people, if you're really
really serious about it, you have to do something to the ones who don't
go along (memo to self: never get that serious)

I guess Pynchon touches on the USSR through Tchitcherine, and a little
bit on anarchism through Squalidozzi and through the Leni/Franz episode
in Berlin (the speech one wishes to God old Hindenburg had made - when
asking for a huge war appropriation - "Fickt es!" and abdicates in
favor of Rosa Luxembourg --- )

I've seen enough references to anarchism in various Pynchon opuses to
get interested in some of its incarnations; it seems that the music
combo "The Fool" he refers to was a real group and may have been
peopled by veterans of the Provo movement in postwar Holland, for which
we have to give great thanks for the relative freedom of herb there -
and the Provos are loosely allied with the Situationists I think who
have the great virtue of having spawned a bunch of writing and little
or no violence (that I'm aware of)