Wealth, Inequality, and “The Great Gatsby” (an Against the Grain rebroadcast)
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about rich people. Does his work also offer a critique of wealth and inequality? According to John Marsh, we can learn a lot about class, power, privilege, and impunity from a novel published 100 years ago.
C.S. Soong talks with John Marsh, author of A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby (Monthly Review Press, 2024) in this rebroadcast from Against the Grain, a program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong and originally broadcasts on Pacifica's KPFA.
Image: Old Mole Variety Hour KBOO logo and cover of A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, by John Marsh.