The Politics of Surrealism
Against The Current vol. 143
Armstrong, Amanda
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2438
Date Written: 2009-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13581
In the first notebook of his Grundrisse, composed in 1857, Marx predicted that the “romantic viewpoint” would “accompany [capitalism] as its legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” He believed that romanticism, with its celebration of the richness — real or imagined — of pre-capitalist life, would remain a perennial reaction to the reification of social life under capitalism.
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