Activity

what Brecht and Weill dramatised on stage was not the traditional Marxist hell of exploitative production relations, but one of unfettered consumerism

this doesn’t sound like a communist society premised on solidarity and shared activities, but a prelapsarian paradise wherein material needs are satisfied

history is not the simple unfolding of some preordained noumenal realm and that existence is therefore ‘ontologically incomplete’

between the chthonic force of Beethoven and the fissured landscapes of Schubert

much of Grossman’s work was directed against those who thought that the revolution could be successfully launched irrespective of the propitiousness of the circumstances