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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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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Yes absolutely.
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Or how culturally conservative the Frankfurt School were a lot of the time, as was Dwight Macdonald. That's without considering how anti-modernist Stalin and his successors were.
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Even the infamous attacks on Soviet composers in the Zhdanov years were aimed at making concert music more accessible (and conservative).
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Beat me to this. Even Marcuse, the most attuned of the mandarin Marxist theorists to the “new”, wrote a final short book in praise of bourgeois art as an allusion to the utopian possibilities of socialism.
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Plausible to regard Marxism as an eschatology whose paradise consists of extending to every human being the ideal life of a leisured Victorian haute-bourgeois.
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I love Cioran so where does that lead me
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