Isn't Hammett considered a Marxist and Red Harvest a Marxist
work?
I guess if you accept it is politically Marxist it's
an acknowledged success
as a hardboiled novel.
I don't see any problem with the broad themes of
Marxism in hardboiled - in fact, I would think most Marxists
would enjoy the view of capitalist society t hat the genre
(generally) promulgates - corruption, crime etc.
I can't really think of a work that actually and
nakedly promoted Marxism as a political theory but
materialism, a determinist view of history and the idea of
conflict in the dialectic can all sit nicely within the
genre.
I may be answering the wrong question here, so please
ignore me if I have.
Comradely greetings to you all,
Colin
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