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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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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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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I think the latter has more to do with personality clashes/personal issues, at least among those you cited
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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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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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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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The leftist GW Bush fan, Chris Hitchens? Do you mean Perry Anderson, the Althusserian?
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