Doris Lessing's once active membership with socialist organizations provided her with the necessary background to develop believable interactions among a large cast of characters who occupy a soon-to-bedemolished London communal squat house.
Fighting against capitalism and bourgeois attitudes, these characters may be ineffectual but still maintain a dignity to change the practices of the hegemony. This determination appears repeatedly in how they handle the sewage problem they encounter in the house by rolling up their sleeves, digging a hole, and disposing of it. A sharp contrast appears with how the enforcers of the bureaucracy, the police, respond to the presence of excrement. Rather than actively find a way to dispose of it, they disgustedly criticize the occupants about their living conditions. According to Lessing, the crux of the problem, however, is that whoever takes over.....
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