(np) some nice general opinioning

[Michael Bailey]

alice wellintown wrote:
> though the satire is muted by Oedipa; she quite a nice little lady
> who, though she's been sleeping with a capitalist robbber barron, is
> no ideologue, no young republican as that term would be applied to the
> reagan daze when the young yuppies got reagan religion. so, to push
> her, as a mouthpiece of Pynchon political radicalism seems a farce.
>

and I would never suggest otherwise.  Of course, there *are* elements
of farce to contend with too.

My main thrust w/r/t Oedipa's stance is that she is most strongly in
favor of scholarly analysis.  Having a "locus amoenus" in which to
perform extended analysis implies at least a detente with whatever
junta is currently in control of the streets, plus enough charm to
hang out with the denizens of the groves of academe...

I was thinking about how Bakunin's name came up often enough (twice)
to make him memorable as, if not the tutelary spirit, at least the
Marx-whiskered mascot of CoL49...
so was and remain interested in his thought pursuant to a better
understanding...

seems to me that Rosa Luxemburg fulfills a similar role in _Gravity's
Rainbow_, although sans whiskers probably...

how I found that link that I shared above ("Break their haughty
power") was by searching for Ernst Bloch in various contexts.  He's
not among the featured artists on marxists.org, for some reason.

anyway, that article addressed the objected-to object of the OWS

PLUS it mentioned Rosa L, who is a factor inspiring Leni's street fighting in GR

so it was sort of on topic in 2 threads
 (and it explains Greek debt to a degree)

As well, or better, it explained primitive accumulation in a way that
I could grasp and I was excited about that too