Re: RARA-AVIS: can noir writers advocate social reform?

From: Patrick King ( abrasax93@yahoo.com)
Date: 27 Nov 2006


mikers said: I disagree. There is nothing that requires
> identifying a struggle for wealth and status as
> political.

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I don't understand how you can say this. Politics is exclusively about status. If you read Aristotle, Jefferson, Pain, Robespierre, Mills, Marx, Lenin, Mao, or Renquist the driving factor for all political change is the status of one class of people over another. The books of Cain and Thompson are exclusively about this struggle, and the lengths to which often not very intelligent people are willing to do to attain victory in it. The definition of politics is a strategy toward wealth & power. How do you define
'politics?'

Patrick King
--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Patrick King wrote:
>
> A Hell of a Woman, this is the story of a poor man
> willing to do murder to get a keep a woman whom he
> neither knows nor understands. It's his struggle for
> wealth and status that drives him to his
> ill-considered behavior. It doesn't get more
> political
> than that!
>
> ************
> I disagree. There is nothing that requires
> identifying a struggle for wealth and status as
> political.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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