1. So I have some thoughts on @rossdouthat, Edmund Burke, Anthony Powell, meritocracy, Perry Anderson, & Karl Marx's love for Balzac.
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11. Tory and reactionary novelists (as well as theorists like Burke) are super-sensitive to how the ideological justifications of national cohesion are in tension with the reality that money dominates. That's a theme that Marxists are also interested in.
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12. So as with Marx on Balzac or Anderson on Powell, the proper response to
@DouthatNYT is not rejection but asking what he gets right. I think his critique of meritocracy (or really pseudo-meritocracy) is spot on.Show this thread -
13. I explore some of these themes here:https://newrepublic.com/article/152533/death-wasp-elite-greatly-exaggerated …
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Yet commercial culture, so to speak, also transmits messages that would occasionally appear to challenge the very logic of commercial culture, in the sense that the critique of capitalism is a trope of capitalism, since capitalism can apparently withstand such contradictions.
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From Samuel R. Delany’s introduction to Heinlein’s GLORY ROAD (quoted from memory): “Balzac was Marx’s favorite novelist. And Heinlein is one of mine.”
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That said, I always figured it was simply that leftists and nostalgic reactionaries both tend to be attuned to subtleties of class.
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