Saruman and betrayal

[Nerwen]

As I said in another thread, it is a mistake to think that you can divide the world into two camps of "left-wing-progressive-pro-science" and "right-wing-conservative-anti-science". It's just not that simple. People can be "progressive" in one area and "conservative" in another.

Also, Animalmother, how is this book supposed to be "about" present-day European socialists? From your phrasing you make it sound as if you think it's a sort of allegory about modern-day politics. You say,

Saruman is a politician-Wizard of the Left, who has presciently adopted as his own symbol a symbol of the modern Left, the rainbow of many colors.

Now, what you mean can't really be that Saruman is prescient, but that the author was. Well and good– except that such detailed predictions of future political developments (that's assuming your description is accurate, which I dispute) are in the realm of psychic powers.