for Lit-critters...on Vineland

[Mark Kohut]

>From a new Salon piece on utopias of the mind:"The religious utopianism was that of the Protestant religious right, which grew in influence in the 1980s and peaked in the 1990s. While the religious right included some Catholics and Jews, its roots were in the Calvinist project of creating a sanctified Christian theocracy on earth. To be sure, most members of the religious right were more moderate than Christian Reconstructionists, who wanted to create an actual Iranian-style theocracy with Christian rather than Muslim content. But the project of remaking a modern, diverse, continental nation on the basis of a book was equally insane, whether the holy book was Marx’s Kapital or the Bible."



If I don't read this, and before I do, I want to ask about bits I think I've noticed:
 
Lotsa traces of Anti-Marx.........
 
he don't much "like" any "ideology", I say. 


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 9:36 AM
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Heavy with Jameson, Derrida....and all that college boyz stuff, but
good to the last cherry pop.


Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

Volume 51, Issue 3, 2010

Spectres of Marx in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland

Skip Willman
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