Point Counter Point

I'm, I'm not urging people to read stuff that's kind of away from quite easy, um, middle of the road, well-known fiction.

So, like, just to go through some of the books that, that I talk about, you know, Aldous Huxley's Point c- um, "Point Counter Point" we're talking at that point, probably the biggest literary celebrity in the world in around 1929, 1930.

Um, I talk about, um, "The Remains of the Day" made into that brilliant, um, Hollywood film.

I talk about, um, novel about, um, Hitler, um, winning the Second World War, "SS-GB".

So, so those are things which I think some of those are likely to be on many or most activists' shelves.

Um, then in terms of what the novels teach, I mean, really what I'm just trying to do in the book is, is say that, um, if you read and take seriously what's been committed in, in fiction, particularly in the case of novelists who are writing immediately after, um, the events they're describing, so the things they lived through and, and maybe had some close-hand experience of, that quite often there's some insight in there which isn't anywhere in either the political literature produced by the movements or the historical literature produced by historians looking back on movements.

So ju- just to give you two examples of this dynamic, um, one is Aldous Huxley's novels, um, "Point Counter Point".

Now, where that novel goes is it builds up to essentially a philosophical discussion of imagine you're in the '20s, imagine there's a fascist leader, let's call him Mosley.