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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Matthew Zeitlin

      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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      Matthew ZeitlinVerified account @MattZeitlin
      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      First of all "they love reading balzac and trollope, read the financial press, listen to orchestral music and operas" basically describes Marx and Engels (if you leave off Trollope). So it's just a case that some Marxists continue to share the habits of the founders of Marxism.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019

      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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        2. anne cunningham‏ @queencityac 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Powell is the Proust of the external detail instead of inner monologue, and that external detail is largely about social relations, so this essay would write itself.

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        3. Nick‏ @getyrtrouserson 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @queencityac @HeerJeet

          Similarly, Henry Green: https://www.thenation.com/article/adam-thirlwell-on-the-many-moods-of-henry-green/ …

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @SWGoldman

          I'm still trying to figure it out but I think there's a kind of cosmopolitianism and tolerance in Powell that his fellow reactionaries came to distrust. For example, he's very indulgent towards sexual diversity.

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        2. Isaac Chotiner‏Verified account @IChotiner 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I think the latter has more to do with personality clashes/personal issues, at least among those you cited

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @IChotiner

          Maybe. But its curious why these clashes happened with people who were really the closest to him in their worldview and sensibility.

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        1. Peter Kadzis‏ @Kadzis 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Point taken. But for the most part (not sure about Larkin) the derision from his fellow rightists is a manifestation of their individual bloody mindedness. In AW's case, it was Powell's failure to pick up on the hint that Waugh would welcome a plug or help from AP.

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        1. chica marx‏ @mckenziewark 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Balzac is a key step to Marx and Engels coming to a theory of class. Balzac wrote a kind of fiction that can express the truth about class in a certain way. Perry, Tariq, Hitchens et al tried to reproduce that with their Powell-worship but i think it led them astray.

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        1. root_e‏ @xanarres 30 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          The leftist GW Bush fan, Chris Hitchens? Do you mean Perry Anderson, the Althusserian?

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        1. Bertie‏ @Bertie201503 30 Sep 2019
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          But loved by @DouthatNYT!

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