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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Replying to @MattZeitlin
Fredric Jameson's love of Ford Maddox Ford is part of this story.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MattZeitlin
Ford Madox Ford is good! Lots of old European-American culture is good. To the extent that there is any there here, I think it's pretty much that people who read lots of books, often like books.
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No, I think Matt is on to something, which is that there is a tradition of Marxists liking reactionary/conservative writers. Marx/Engels on Balzac, Lukacs on Mann, Jameson on F.M. Ford & Wyndham Lewis, Anderson on Anthony Powell. It's a real thing.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MattZeitlin
I kow a bunch of Yeats and Larkin poems by heart. So what? There's this weird thing here where you first accuse leftists of imposing a rigid PC purity test on literature, and then when you notice that they don't, instead of revising your views you just add a charge of hypocrisy.
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Replying to @JWMason1 @MattZeitlin
Matt is not making a charge of hypocrisy! He's noting an interesting quirk.
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yes in my experience the people i'm thinking of (engels, piketty, perry anderson) like those writers *because* of their left wing politics not in spite of them
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I wouldn't put myself in the same league as Perry Anderson etc but I also really like reading reactionary writers like Gene Wolfe, Anthony Powell and Wyndham Lewis (the all the great modernists, really) in part precisely for their politics.
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Delany’s love of Heinlein fits here.
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Way ahead of you.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1178730965411225600 …
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My bad. My eyes must have blurred that part out.
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