it's funny how many committed leftists have the cultural tastes of, like, a 19th century minor aristocrat or bourgeois. they love reading balzac and trollope, read the financial press, listen to orchestral music and operas.
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Yet again confronted with my only regret about not being brought up Catholic - I never get to appreciate the critiques of it!
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It's really quite wonderful, I recommend it to everyone. Hell, hope to subject my kids to it
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And I have a very distinct memory of Wolfe at a con panel saying to the audience, *If you try to tell me poverty is the fault of the poor I will shoot you, and I know how to do that from Korea*. (Words to that effect.) He was a very heterodox conservative.
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He mentioned somewhere that he had been a "National Review conservative" in 1950s and 1960s but changed. So yes, heterodox. His main conservatism was gender but even here there's complexity: Severin is a kind of spiritual hermaphrodite.
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When I think of Wolfe's reactionary politics I think of his unironic royalism. But the SUN books are some of the clearest anti-royal statements in fantasy, where the greatest king is Satan in one and the Demiurge in another.
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I remember a passage where Severian's mentor ghost (can't remember his name, it's a long time since I read the series) is catechising him about his politics. A pretty strong indication of the author's own political views.
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