The Good Terrorist | Social Concerns

Doris Lessing's once active membership with socialist organizations provided her with the necessary background to develop believable interactions among a large cast of characters who occupy a soon-to-be demolished London communal squat house. Fighting against capitalism and bourgeois attitudes, these characters may be ineffectual but still maintain a dignity to change the practices of the hegemony. This determination appears repeatedly in how they handle the sewage problem they encounter in the house by rolling up their sleeves, digging a hole, and disposing of it. A sharp contrast...

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