as he was of the type, and one of them, they promoted him as a 'great' because he did write well. It didn't matter that his point of view and characterizations of people were inauthentic and stereotypical. They made him a 'heroic' 'novelist' because he blew the horn of Socialism.
And thus it is pretened that, just because he wrote convincing prose, that, as well, he was a 'great thinker' or 'philosopher', when, in fact, he was most a propagandist for anti police and pro socialist causes (unionist). His portrayal of people is always as grotesque california mis-conception type of 'arch types', but false because they were just made up.