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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yes in my experience the people i'm thinking of (engels, piketty, perry anderson) like those writers *because* of their left wing politics not in spite of them
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well it's a good thing we've debunked the stereotype that left wingers are dour and humorless
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It is possible I overreacted.
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No hard feelings not a great medium for communicating one’s intended shade of irony and affection
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Reactionary/conservative writers can be pretty anti-capitalistic after all (Balzac is quite dismissive about the worship/triumph of money/capital in 1830's France in the Human Comedy). So. it is not that quirky IMHO
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