A confluence of proto-fascist ideologies - Taylor's and Lawrence's - could explain the "philosophy" put forward by Cooley in Kangaroo. What Lawrence has Cooley saying, at length, is probably in concert with Lawrence's pre-chapter-11 beliefs on Whitman, democracy, and the future of society (with emphasis on the words "pre-chapter-11" - see below).

So the fascist-tinged ideas advanced in the first-half of Kangaroo may not have necessarily been Rosenthal's. Assuredly, however, they were in tune with Taylor's thinking, perhaps put by Lawrence into the mouth of Taylor's superior officer, colleague and good friend - the man Callcott and his fellow conspirators in Kangaroo called "Roo". (His actual nickname was "Rosey".)

So Roo/Rosey could also have been an amalgam - a combination of the face and figure of Rosenthal welded on to the ideas and ideology of George Augustine Taylor.

There is perhaps another echo of Taylor in Kangaroo in the passage in chapter 8, "Volcanic Evidence", when Trewhella suggests to Somers that the time for the Diggers and Maggies to "take over" would be after control had been ceded, tactically, to "the Reds".

"Jaz" urges Somers to suggest this "ambush" strategy to Cooley...to wait for the socialists to "get into a real mess", at which point the Diggers "step in" and assume power - the precise post-war scenario Taylor foresaw in The Sequel.