Editing Kingsley Amis (section)

===Political views===
As a young man at Oxford, Amis joined the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] and left it in 1956.<ref>Martin Amis, ''Koba the Dread'' (2002).</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/mi5-kept-tabs-young-communist-kingsley-amis/ |title=MI5 reports on Amis. Retrieved 21 January 2019. |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=28 November 2017 |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=21 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121121758/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/mi5-kept-tabs-young-communist-kingsley-amis/ |url-status=live |last1=Farmer |first1=Ben }}</ref> He later described this stage of his political life as "the callow [[Marxist]] phase that seemed almost compulsory in Oxford."<ref>Amis, ''Socialism and the Intellectuals'', cited by Leader, 2006, p. 366.</ref> Amis remained nominally on the [[political left]] for some time after the war, declaring in the 1950s that he would always vote for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>Leader, 2006, p. 366.</ref>

Amis eventually moved further to the [[political right]], a development he discussed in the essay "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right" (1967); his [[conservatism]] and [[anti-communism]] are visible in works like the dystopian novel ''Russian Hide and Seek'' (1980).<ref>[[Neal Ascherson]], [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n10/neal-ascherson/red-souls "Red Souls"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620094410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n10/neal-ascherson/red-souls |date=20 June 2019 }}, ''London Review of Books'', Vol. 2, No. 10, May 1980. Retrieved 20 June 2019.</ref> In 1967, Amis, [[Robert Conquest]], [[John Braine]], and several other authors signed a letter to ''[[The Times]]'' entitled "Backing for U.S. Policies in Vietnam", supporting the US government in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>John Wakeman, ''World Authors 1950–1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors''. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1975, pp. 448–448 {{ISBN|0824204190}}.</ref> He spoke at the [[Adam Smith Institute]], arguing against government subsidy to the arts.<ref>[[Madsen Pirie]], ''Think Tank: The Story of the Adam Smith Institute'', [[Biteback Publishing]], 2012, p. 140.</ref>