Comments on: They waste that money on bad haircuts and pop stars, making them ripe for Communist picking

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:35:07 +0000

I don’t know about the book, but the review sounds like left-wing garbage. Fleming’s opinion of strike-happy unions and “youth” don’t sound any different than my father’s, who was working class himself, and of course the USSR actually had infiltrated the British labor movement, to the point that some British unions actually appealed to the USSR for financial aid during their confrontation with Margaret Thatcher in the 1980′s.

By: Bruce Purcell

Bruce Purcell — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:18:55 +0000

In the early books Bond is a tolerated gangster, not upper class. He can afford one good car, just barely. He doesn’t belong to high-class gambling clubs; his boss does. He has a vague WWII record of violence, but in 1950′s England this was pretty common. He travels around using WWII surplus stuff against other people using WWII surplus stuff. In later books he levels up, and the movies were always over the top, so dependent on soundtracks they were almost musicals.