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the classical Marxian notion of the necessity, during the transition to socialism, of a 'dictatorship of the proletariat'

The legacy of German Expressionism provided a more propitious framework for the development of a major debate within Marxism than its contemporary French counterpart, surrealism, was to do

it converts its own malediction into a theodicy

the adherents of a philosophy which has since degenerated into a mere ideological sport, fulminate in pre-1933 fashion against artistic distortion

When Brecht became a panegyrist of its harmony, his lyric voice had to swallow chalk, and it started to grate.