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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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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Or they locate the solution to the lost world in the future, not the past.
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Also how effectively they skewer(ed) the (vulgar) bourgeoisie.
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Marxist Reactionaries
contempt for the bourgeoisie (also being a member of the bourgeoisie)
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Solid analysis. I feel like he's describing a certain Xer leftism. When I was in college in the '90s, I read Marx and also a lot of 19th c high culture: Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Henry James. All "very sensitive to historical change." And really good stuff.
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Books like Lost Illusions & Sentimental Education and even Madame Bovary & Paris Spleen plunge you into the fast-changing Europe that Marx was analyzing.
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As if Lukacs is the only Marxist critic and wasn't opposed on this point by Brecht, Adorno, Jameson and countless others.
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