you say you want a revolution, well you know

[Joseph Tracy]

Tariq, Khalil    - Tariq Ali  Ali is a Pakistani intellectual whose  
writing started in advocacy of armed Leninist resistance, but has  
come more and more to oppose war and violence. He has come to focus   
on  the historic roots and patterns of oppression exhibited by  
colonialism , imperialism and strong man rule and  to celebrate  
democratic  resistance to imperialism. He first came to wide  
attention in the US in 1968 for a debate with Kissinger over Vietnam.

Allele- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele  the cellular  locus of  
the malleability of the characteristics of an individual through the  
union of male and female genes.

Galil- Israeli assault rifle  that comes as carbine or light machine gun

The name adds up to a powerful image that seems to very intentionally  
ask questions about violent revolution and whether it is an effective  
way of resisting empire, or establishing a just order.  It has   
echoes in the name and style  and the questions raised by the  
character of Mickey Wolfmann. Wolfmann is a Jewish businessman who is  
relying on neo nazi skinhead types for muscle and protection. He also  
has inner conflicts about the values that made him rich. When he  
decides to reverse the cash flow he finds his "freedom" was limited.

Often we take for granted the positive inheritance of the american  
revolution but Pynchon's ancestors were loyalists and M&D seems to  
ask whether the Civil war was the real inheritance of that revolution/ 
landgrab led by an upper-class surveyor and real estate speculator.  
And our defense of revolution is limited; we have great reservations  
when those that America has clearly oppressed consider that "it is  
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to  
provide new Guards for their future security."

It would seem to me to be in keeping with Pynchon's writing  that he  
is  pointing both to Israel and the US  as examples of the  
overreliance on weapons and strongarm tactics by pointing out the  
obvious tendency of such means to unleash violent resistance and  
revenge, and to require a cultivation of criminal behaviors which  
cannot be controlled or limited and lead to a world of cabals,  
scapegoating  and assassinations as dark as anything the long history  
of Europe offers.