[Marxism] 'Biggles'

[Steve Palmer]

All this nostalgia is making shivers run down my spine. My Biggles was an anti-semitic, racist imperialist faithfully preventing the British Empire from being overrun by 'swarthy hordes', 'the Hun', 'Nips', 'Ruskies' etc etc. He not only fought in the first world war and the second, but in between could be found killing time, all over the British empire, machine gunning natives. A 'man's man' who found women incomprehensible and had commitment issues. He should be stuck in a re-education camp and his books recycled.


--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:

> From: Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] 'Biggles'
> To: "Steve Palmer" <spalmer999 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 1:32 PM
> Ah, yes, Biggles. As in Biggles Defies The Swastika and
> other books, the 
> first books I read on my own from my older brother's
> collection. But I 
> remember Biggles as a Second World War ace, not WW I.  My
> brother also had 
> the Dave Dawson series, which I also devoured. Dave Dawson
> of the USAF and 
> his "trusty British sidekick, good old Freddy
> Farmer" from the RAF, who 
> together destroyed the German and Japanese air forces.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graham M." <gkmilner at v-app.com.au>
> To: "Marv Gandall"
> <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
> Cc: "Marxmail"
> <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:50 PM
> Subject: [Marxism] 'Biggles'
> >
> >
> > Dear N.K.,
> >                 I thought I'd write to you about
> Biggles.   I was a bit
> > surprised to learn that contemporary schoolboys in
> Australia still read 
> > the
> > 'Biggles' books.   The two sons of a friend of
> mine were reading and
> > enjoying them back in the early 1990s, and I was
> intrigued to learn that
> > they and their friends in the local neighbourhood were
> very interested in
> > military aviation, and that their main focus was on
> World War Two 
> > aircraft.
> > It seems now, more than fifty or sixty years after
> World War Two, the
> > military conflicts of that war still dominate the
> consciousness of the
> > rising generations.
> >
> 
> 
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