Brecht’s libretto, too, sought to make it clear that the bourgeois world was absurd and anarchic.
Monopoly capitalism and the fascist state could not tolerate this autonomous sphere of life that represented a potential threat to the existing order, so they did to rarefied bourgeois culture what they did to the family
what Brecht and Weill dramatised on stage was not the traditional Marxist hell of exploitative production relations, but one of unfettered consumerism
on City of Mahoganny
this doesn’t sound like a communist society premised on solidarity and shared activities, but a prelapsarian paradise wherein material needs are satisfied
Hannah Arendt on Marx
history is not the simple unfolding of some preordained noumenal realm and that existence is therefore ‘ontologically incomplete’
Adorno, who else
