He's a Marxist, right?
I don't know that he'd adhere to any specific school of thought but he is certainly left-leaning/critical of capitalism.
>>8149490
yeah!
Always struck me as kind of an Anarcho-primitivist
>>8149490
What >>8149502 said seems to be correct. Calling Pynchon a Marxist is incorrect in the way that calling Jesus a Marxist is incorrect.
Ruggles seems to value the same things as most academic Marxists, but he's never really said how he believes social equality ought to be achieved.
In addition, nothing suggests he identifies as a Marxist.
>>8149521
he's too smart for that
>>8149490
He's definitely not a utilitarian, that's for sure.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
He rips on Marxists in GR, especially in the character of Leni. The roundtable Kommunist Partei Deutschland discussions they have are vapid and impotent and the impression is that left-wing politics erode at your humanity just as bad as Nazism. Her daughter Ilse is betrayed just as horribly by both her parents.
