Who is the greatest author who was rightwing (aside from Shakespeare)?
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Funny—I’m currently reading The Inimitable Jeeves, and Wodehouse struck me as progressive.
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He was unpolitical, no? No real politics in his books.
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They are deeply subversive in terms of his inversion of the British class system.
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He was captured in WWII and used by Nazi propaganda, I don't think that counts as voluntarily right wing.
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The whole Spode storyline complicates the PGW = Nazi theme
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C.S.Lewis
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Wodehouse's reputation is stained by the fact he was captured by the Nazis and made broadcasts used for propaganda purposes. But it looks as if the consensus is that Wodehouse was clueless, starting with how he was captured in the first place, and not sympathetic to his captors.
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It's better than that. He was forced to talk on the radio by the Germans. He started out with something like, "Young men starting out in life often ask me, 'How does one become a German intern?' In my case the method was straightforward: buy a villa in France and wait."
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I think it is plainly quite unfair to describe Wodehouse as right-wing. So did Orwell.
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Wodehouse wrote about clueless aristos, feckless fascists, and the working-class servants being the only ones with brains. If he was a conservative then he was a strangely inept one.
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