How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"There's no sort of conviction about anything, except that it's all a muddle and a hole. Even under a Soviet you've still got to sell coal: and that's the difficulty." (19.163)
Lawrence, speaking here through his favorite mouthpiece, Mellors, is definitely no communist. Communism, like the kind the Soviet Union was trying out in the 1920s, still takes place in a money-based economy. It's an alternative to capitalism rather than, as Lawrence wants, an alternative to modernity.