[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[Gar Lipow]

On 7/7/07, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote:
> My man Pynchon is pretty out on the left, but with more apparent
> sympathies for anarchism than any particular brand of communism or
> whatever.  Also his status as a secret recluse who may or may not
> exist prevents him from playing an active role as a public politically
> engaged intellectual I guess.  Many of our contemporary fiction
> writers seem to be vaguely left, but none that I can think of hew to a
> particular organization or socialist tendency.

In the U .S.,  Science Fiction is a sub-genre with a whole of lot
socialists,  S. Brust, Terry Bisson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Maureen F.
McHugh, Gregory Feeley, Eric Flint have all explicity identified
themselves as socialists.  Also I can think of a number who are at
least left-liberals completely devoid of market worship the late
lamented Octavia Butler was at least radical if not socialist. Charles
Stross. Cory Doctorow,  John Barnes, (It would not surprise me of
Corty Doctorow had actually used the S-word, but I canotn find
anything offhand.)

I guarantee that I've left out many times the number of socialists
I've included, not mention the more or less radical non-socialists.