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

[...] Nothing has, of course, more effectively discredited Marxism than the practice of affixing instant class labels (generally 'petty bourgeois') to textual or intellectual objects [...]

[...] The practice of estrangement--staging phenomena in such a way that what had seemed natural and immutable in them is now tangibly revealed to be historical and thus the object of revolutionary change--has long seemed to provide an outlet from the dead end of agitational didacticism in which so much of the political art of the past remains confined. [...]

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

The reification of late capitalism--the transformation of human relations into an appearance of relations between things--renders society opaque