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Teckla, etc

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Fri Jun 7 20:35:26 PDT 2002

>Steven Brust wrote:
>> At 02:32 PM 6/7/2002 -0700, Gregory Rapawy wrote:
>> >[Something.]
>> Heh.  Give me a week and I'll make a Marxist out of you.  :-)

>By any chance, have you read any of Ken Macleod's novels, particularly
>_The Star Fraction_ or _The Stone Canal_?  One of many aspects to those
>books involves what he seems to describe as a Marxist-Trotskyist utopia.
>I would be willing to bet a small amount of money that he's a Trotskyist
>himself.

I just finished _Dark Light_, and it was definitley a Marxist/Socialist
vs. Democracy vs. a weird status quo.  I would agree with your assumption
only because people who are Trotskyist's don't know what one is and
would never write about it. [1]

The novel was decent enough, but he's no Brust.  :)

-Jot

[1] Like me.  Not a clue.  Time to google to buy a clue.  :)