The old communistic strategy of pitting the proletariat against the bourgeoisie doesn't work in America, so they substitute race. The serpent was the most subtle of all the beasts in the garden.
It's not one of his famous or best books, but your article makes me think of Tom Wolfe's novel, Back to Blood. The nihilism and decadence of the cultural elite, the aspiration of the lower middle class to bourgeois values vs. staying 'in the group'.
The old communistic strategy of pitting the proletariat against the bourgeoisie doesn't work in America, so they substitute race. The serpent was the most subtle of all the beasts in the garden.
It's not one of his famous or best books, but your article makes me think of Tom Wolfe's novel, Back to Blood. The nihilism and decadence of the cultural elite, the aspiration of the lower middle class to bourgeois values vs. staying 'in the group'.