Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[Ghetta Life]

Good quote.

Yes.  Pynchon is always focusing on power dynamics, which is why calling him 
a lefty is misleading.  He flirts with anarchy as well.  And his “daisy 
chain” of S&M is also multivalent.  I don’t think he commits to anything.  
He just observes and comments.

Ghetta


>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>
>More or less consciously, he found an analogy between British Labour and 
>the Communist Party under Stalin---both, he felt, were movements professing 
>to fight for the working classes against capitalism, but in reality 
>concerned 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".
>
>What's expressed in that last sentence is pretty much the point of view 
>that TRP has always been expressing.

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