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Brecht on Kafka

[...] In Kafka, then, the parabolic element is in conflict with the visionary element. But Kafka as a visionary, says Brecht, saw what was coming without seeing what is. [...] Kafka had one problem and one only, he says, and that was the problem of organization. He was terrified by the thought of…

—p.88 Aesthetics and Politics Conversations with Brecht (86) by Walter Benjamin
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what 'realistic' means

Realistic means: discovering the causal complexes of society / unmasking the prevailing view of things as the view of those who are in power / writing from the standpoint of the class which offers the broadest solutions for the pressing difficulties in which human society is caught up / emphasizing…

—p.82 Against Georg Lukács (68) by Bertolt Brecht
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the abstract, fetishized world that surrounds them

[...] Marx shows that the relationship between the circulation of money and its agent, mercantile capital, involves the obliteration of all mediations and so represents the most extreme form of abstraction in the entire process of capitalist production. If they are considered as they manifest thems…

—p.39 Realism in the Balance (28) by György Lukács