Posted by Mike Dennis on August 04, 2003 at 06:53:44 from 195.92.67.209 user MTD.
Now, can we get all this into some kind of perspective before we all drive each other away from this site?
Any books, AR included, can be read at various levels. One level involves ananlysis of all aspects of a work and there are numerous approaches you can take to that analysis; one of which is Marxist. We may not like what it stands for, nor many other isms, but it doesn't stop us seeing what any particular writer's message is using such methods.
In my own case I read Orwell's 1984 as a young teenager and just enjoyed it as a sort of crime thriller. I then re-read it in my twenties and could take in nothing else but the political message. I have read it a few more times since and now see nothing but prophecy.
The book itself is still the same, and will mean different things to different readers. The same goes for the works of AR, we all agree they are great but we all have our own way of reading and thinking about them.
So, can we leave it that and remember that someone else's view may not be our own; and if it isn't they are just as entitled to it as we are ours?