So, this tweet basically describes only 15 people but I happen to know most of them (either as friends or as writers). So I can't help but wonder what is going on here.https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1178701629060722688 …
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But it's not just a matter of Marxists inheriting Marx's taste. There's a tradition of leftists loving reactionary/conservative writers. Marx/Engels on Balzac, Lukacs on Mann, Jameson on F.M. Ford & Wyndham Lewis, Anderson on Anthony Powell, Delany on Heinlein.
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I think the core explanation is that reactionary writers like Balzac are very sensitive to historical change (their work is a mourning for a lost world). Marxists appreciate this sense of history without sharing the nostalgia for the lost world.
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Engels appreciation of Balzac actually makes this point beautifully. It's Balzac's rich historical consciousness and textured understanding of social class that spoke to Marx & Engelspic.twitter.com/EnLEM6VTY4
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Tangentially, someone should write about the paradox of how the vey Tory novelist Anthony Powell is loved by leftists (Anderson, Tariq Ali, Hitchens, Pinter) & often derided by his fellow reactionaries (Muggeridge, Larkin, Naipaul, Auburn Waugh).
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It would be weird if liberals continued to share the habits of John Stuart Mill, though.
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Lots of liberals love the romantic poets, as Mill did.
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Opera is crazy as hell. Who doesn't love messy bitches who live for the drama. Really most of the cultural stuff on that lists falls under that heading.
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