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ponddweller
ponddweller
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High School - 12th Grade

How does Marxism effect Housenni's writing?

The novel makes a lot out of class distinctions. Does this make it a Marxist text? Are there other factors which identify with Marxism?

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Posted by ponddweller on Saturday March 1, 2008 at 7:18 PM and tagged with communism, marxism, the kite runner, themes.

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  1. acucino
    acucino Student
    Graduate School

    I think it isn't necessarily a "marxist" novel.  Unless you mean it predicts the uprising of marxism and the start of communism.  That could be somewhat truthful.  However, the presence of class distinctions is actually captialist.  In that cases, the class system and the "unrest" would promote marxism.  Yet, there really was no unrest of the lower classes.  (As there was in Pre-Soviet Russia).  The Afgan culture was such that the Sunni and Shi'a were used to the situation.  They didn't appear to fight.  The classes that later came to power in Afganistan seek to eliminate the established lower class.  To me an arguement can be made that the novel was more fascist.  But, anyway, the communists didn't really have everybody "equal".  The ones in power had more the the "masses". 

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    Posted by acucino on Sunday March 30, 2008 at 8:55 PM