Re: [Marxism] The Method

["Gary MacLennan" <gary.maclennan1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

Lawrence as you would know also wrote a novel *Kangaroo* based on his trip
down under in 1922.   I have never read all of Kangaroo but it does contain
interesting stuff about the Australian Fascist movement - the New Guard.
Again the same attraction - repulsion "thang" mediated thru repressed
homosexual desire. There was something of a minor scandal when it came out
here how historically accurate it was.  Australians like to impose taboos on
their history and notions of the fundamental importance of class
conflict are quite simply beyond the pale. It has always amused me that
dominant opionion in Australia,  a nation built on slavery and genocide, is
so ready to label as "un-Australian" radical politics of any kind.

I do not read much serious fiction now and I long ago gave up on Lawrence.
In many ways he seems all too pre-Stonewall.  But that is incredibly unfair,
I know.  I also have an absolute contempt and hatred for even the faintest
trace of an attraction to fascism. Thus I used to get enraged by those who
were attracted by Riefenstahl's *Triumph of the Will* .

I do though still read Lawrence's poetry, especially the ones about his time
as a teacher.  The more famous poems  such as *Snake* and *Kangaroo* were
seemingly influenced by Whitman, but I'm afraid my tastes in poetry run to
minimalism and I have never really been able to read and enjoy the Whitman
school and that btw includes Ginsberg.

best regards

Gary
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