it's funny how many committed leftists have the cultural tastes of, like, a 19th century minor aristocrat or bourgeois. they love reading balzac and trollope, read the financial press, listen to orchestral music and operas.
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I kow a bunch of Yeats and Larkin poems by heart. So what? There's this weird thing here where you first accuse leftists of imposing a rigid PC purity test on literature, and then when you notice that they don't, instead of revising your views you just add a charge of hypocrisy.
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Matt is not making a charge of hypocrisy! He's noting an interesting quirk.
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Gene motherfucking Wolfe.
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He's completely off base in thinking that describes anybody except the last 105-year-old member of the Fabian Society, but I agree with the point you're making, especially in terms of the leftist attempts to repurpose Nietzsche.
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One part of the socialist tradition is a concern with mercenary capitalism's social and cultural blowtorch, where "all that is solid melts into air." Conservative writers documenting the decline of their class or institutions are a useful source of social information and insight.
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Well it’s better than giving a shit about Batman.
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well, Lukacs spent his career explaining precisely why he faved Mann, who by the way is something of a mixed bag when it comes to these labels
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I wish Marx had lived long enough to read Howells.
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