![]() ![]() Anyway, after a couple more drinks, she makes her - and the book's - position perfectly clear: I obviously don't get out enough, 'cos no one talks like that at any dinner party I go to. For Marx proclaimed: "Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism - huckstering and its preconditions - the Jew will have become impossible!"' (pp.78-79) We recognise in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time." And the Great Man ended his particular tirade with a sentiment which would have done credit to Hitler and Stalin, who as you know, Vicar, were both dedicated anti-Semites. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. For in this particular article Marx affirmed: "What is the secular basis of Judaism? Self-interest. 'For instance, Marx wrote an article called On The Jewish Question, which reminds me of another "great" German's credo. This, for example, is Hampton's ex-girlfriend engaged in dinner conversation with a clergyman who makes the mistake of saying that Marxism and Christianity have a lot in common she's explaining where he's gone wrong: The protagonists - old-school MP Roy Hampton, and Militantesque Terry McMasters - exist as mouthpieces for political positions rather than characters, and the same is true of just about everyone else in the book. ![]() The whole of this novel is a diatribe against Trotskyist infiltration into the Labour Party and the inability or unwillingness of mainstream Labour to defend itself. I don't know anythng about his politics but I suspect he's a traditionalist Labour man, since the temporary (as they turned out) successes of Tony Benn in the Labour Party of the early-1980s clearly scared the Bejesus out of him. He also, however, wrote the novel Ritual, which became the legendary film The Wicker Man in 1973 with a script by Anthony Shaffer, and this curio from the 1980s. This will level all England and turn this island into a siege economy run on the principles so clearly laid down by his heroes, Marx, Trotsky and Lenin.ĭavid Pinner was originally an actor (he starred in The Mousetrap) before becoming a writer, principally of stage-plays such as Lenin In Love and Potsdam Quartet. Terry McMasters, a lean, hungry and attractive young man, is resolutely unemployed so that he can dedicate himself to engineering the coming revolution. Roy is drinking and smoking too much even for a harassed right wing Labour MP. His best friend and supporter in the Party turns out to have his fingers in the till. The lure of his ex-mistress Helen, threatens his marriage, their daughter Alexa makes herself up like the witch of Endor, his son Sebastian has withdrawn from his father in favour of his A levels. On the right, Roy Hampton MP, for Lamberton North, on the left, Terry McMasters chairman of the local Labour Party determined to replace him. ![]() It centres on the conflict between two men. For Stephen Haseler, Roger Fox and Elspeth Cochraneĭavid Pinner's novel is a portrait of England today. ![]()
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