On money and billy clubs

[Mark Kohut]

Oedipa WAS a young Republican....she is a new woman by the crying, no? Part of
the whole meanings of the novel, no?
 
Anyway, theoretical anarchism was very in the culture in the sixties....P got there
in Crying before the prose books and other writings came out...............
 
Hippies were, in essence, embodied anarchists........................

From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: On money and billy clubs

Ian Livingston  wrote:
> Remembering that Oedipa is a Young Republican, of course.
>

exactly!  that meant something a bit different in 1966 than it does
now, although there are still similarities...

>> a bit about learning from history...
>
> As per Santayana's infamously misquoted assertion that those who fail
> to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them?
>

right on.  the biggest instance I can think of is how although by 1966
Leninist Marxism was still lumbering along, even at that early date it
was pretty clear that every anarchist movement that had arisen
anywhere had gotten the everliving crap kicked out of it
(which is a shame, as it's by far the most attractive theory in many respects)
but knowing that history probably has something to do with her
approaching it gingerly
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