Cyberpunk and the class struggle (wasRe: [Marxism] Saul Bellow

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From: rrubinelli <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> And there are others... what's that guy's name who was a
> speechwriter for Reagan?
> Mark Helperin?  Wrote Memoirs From An Ant Proof Case?  Great writing.

And even at their worse writting, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the grand 
poobahs of cyberpunk, and both high-paid "futurists", provide incredible 
insigth into the class struggle and how they might develop in the next 100 
years. They are worthy both as excercises in fiction and as political comentary.

In particular, the series of short stories by Bruce Sterling on political 
islam, from the straight up sci-fi (in the name of Allah, The Compassionate, 
the Digital), to the relevant and satirical view of the USA ("We see things 
differently)

sks


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