[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I'll try to respond to this with slightly less irritability.  Personally I
think that Mieville's politics are what make his books so enjoyable.  I'm
not sure that you would get the complex dynamics of the city without his
engagement with Marxism.  On the other hand, the Iron Council is
impoverished by his insistence of reading revolutionary struggle in terms
of the 1905 revolt, rather than imagining a future mode of struggle (a la
the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy)  robert wood


> Well the Brits have China Mieville, but I think his
> books would be greatly improved if he were to take his
> politics out.
>