The US remains a society in which Marxism can be advocated only a little more respectably than pederasty, and lately accusations of socialism erupt from the Republican Party more frequently than since McCarthy’s heyday.
Jameson wrote of Dialectic of Enlightenment that ‘the question about poetry after Auschwitz has been replaced with that of whether you could bear to read Adorno and Horkheimer,
with their reproachful spines’ next to the pool.
So intellectual debility becomes a badge of populism, and socialist learning a hobby of rich people’s children. Erudition has become a dirty word.
Jameson wrote of Dialectic of Enlightenment that ‘the question about poetry after Auschwitz has been replaced with that of whether you could bear to read Adorno and Horkheimer,
with their reproachful spines’ next to the pool.
So intellectual debility becomes a badge of populism, and socialist learning a hobby of rich people’s children. Erudition has become a dirty word.
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