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Read Online Download. Great book, Red Harvest pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. As Quint explains, the various mob factions entered the city as hired guns of the respectable Willsson. Although he quickly became unhappy when his ser- vants took over his city, Willsson was by then complicit. After this meeting—which the Op arranged to instigate internecine warfare amongst the gang- sters and police—one criminal faction gains control of the police, filling its ranks with gangsters and preparing to wage war against other factions.
Hammett certainly does paint a bleak picture of early-twentieth-century indus- trial capitalism in the United States. He also depicts the forces of the capitalist state, especially the police, as uninterested in justice. While Police Chief Noonan ends up unable to match the tactical fortitude of his gangster counterparts, this is a question of skill and not appetite.
In fact, the police under Noonan are more interested in their own enrichment than in anything so abstract as justice or so concrete as catching criminals. The career of MacSwain, a former cop who framed somebody else for a mur- der he had committed and is now a habitual gambler, underlines this negative view of the police.
At the same time, while Red Harvest does not contradict Marxist critiques of both capitalism in general and the capitalist state in particular, it does not articulate a Marxist perspective. With its lack of class perspective or collective struggle, and its central character a thinly-disguised Pinkerton, Red Harvest can also be read as glorifying the role of the individualist detective imposing himself upon a disintegrating capitalist world.
Rather than oppose capitalism, such a character would use his comprehension of the real nature of industrial society to better his own position, including through anti-working-class activities.
However, while there are elements of this analysis in Red Harvest, it is difficult to ascertain to what degree Hammett is criticizing and to what degree he is celebrating. This is especially true when taken in the context of the original venue in which the novel was published: Black Mask magazine tended to be a pro-law-and- order journal, at times even running sympathetic stories about the Ku Klux Klan Goulart 27—28; Hagermann.
It is just as realistic to read the world of Red Harvest as one of nihilist cynicism. Zumoff On the contrary, for the Op, truth has no particular privilege over falsehood: he uses both as tools to achieve his ends. In both cases, the Op instigates violence and warfare.
On one level, such a perspective can be read as an attack on the idea of reality itself, of rationality. As we shall see, there are political implications to this perspective as well. However, there are two elements that complicate such a political reading.
The ambiguity of the Op is more notable when one recalls that he is based, in part, on Hammett himself. Although Hitler had not yet taken power when Hammett wrote the novel, Mussolini had already come to power in Italy.
After joining the Communist Party, Hammett wanted so much to fight Hitler in the Second World War in keeping with CP ideology, he saw this as a war against fascism, as opposed to an inter-imperialist war like World War I that he volunteered for the army, and when he was told that he could not see combat duty because his teeth were too bad, had all of them extracted see Horsley. Fascism is also at the centre of Red Harvest, but not in an obviously readable way. According to the Marxist perspective, fascism is the terror and repression, based in the lumpenproletariat and petty-bourgeoisie, that the capitalist class uses to smash the organized working class.
In this reading, the Op, far from being anti-fascist, is himself a tool of fascist rule. The Op is engaged in a war against the entire world, and trusts nobody but himself.
He conceals his real identity; he manipulates his client; he fools his enemies; and he does not even explain the case to his boss in San Francisco or his colleagues who come to Personville to assist him. Far from being solidly anti-fascist, Red Harvest appears to present a much more contradictory view of fascism. Hammett may be satirical, but he also may not be. Mussolini, after all, defended his rule by arguing he made the trains run on time and brought order out of chaos, just as the Op did.
Several critics have commented on the essentially Hobbesian perspective of the Op. Against the backdrop of a bleak and brutal chaos ruled by utterly immoral forces, they face each other in their respective moral isolation, locked in deadly oppo- sition. If one looks at the gangster polity from the outside as Bill Quint does , it appears to be an analogue or figure of fascist power that is explicable in Marxist terms.
This would imply a much starker vision than Freedman and Kendrick acknowledge. Therefore, the neces- sity of a strong state arose, not, as absolutists like King James had argued, because God willed it, but to maintain social order.
That is to say, Hobbes, while a product of the Enlightenment, argued for a repressive and strong state. If the state of nature is as the Op describes it in Red Harvest, if violence and internecine warfare is the norm to which society naturally gravitates, then a strong state would seem to be justified. In any case, the end of the novel does not represent a victory over fascism. However, this reading is not obvious, and it is not clear what, if any, overt political point Hammett is trying to make.
Written while Brecht was in exile, this play sets the rise of Hitler in the context of gang warfare in Chicago in the s. As James Walker points out, Brecht and Hammett share an expressionist ethos and, addition- ally, both ran afoul of the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Unlike Red Harvest, however, Arturo Ui is obviously about the rise of Hitler, and has a explicit anti-fascist message. A However, the politics of the latter are not obvious—or, at least, do not lend them- selves to an obvious reading.
This ambiguity gives Red Harvest its power as literature, if not propaganda. Having spent his early professional years as a cadre in an anti-labour organization, and having collected his literary raw material from this work, Hammett is not in a usual position for a Communist author. Red Harvest, like most of his famous works, was written after he had concluded that American society was corrupt, but before he decided that a revolution would be necessary to set the world right.
This is not the only way to read Red Harvest, of course. Second, it is important to keep in mind that Hammett wrote the bulk of his fic- tion before his close relationship with the Communist Party. However, the story of The Maltese Falcon first appeared in Black Mask in September , more than a month before the crash.
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