In 1933, Henry Hazlitt left The Nation magazine to become Mencken’s successor at the American Mercury. During the transition, he wrote an important but lost book on literary criticism that will be of intense interest to economists and literature scholars. His appendix is particularly compelling, for here he blasts the rise of a new breed of critic, one who sees all literature through Marxian eyes. Hazlitt wrote long before this strain of thought became dominant in the profession. FULL ARTICLE
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Literature and the “Class War”
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I think Goethe is turning in his grave. I mean, what kind of compliments is that one karl marx liked your writings ??
Marx, trotsky and the rest of the panteon strike me as fanatics with only one aim – total power. And it turns out that power lusters are not especially clever, and surely are not interested in art. They’re interested in turning society into a forced labour camp – as they did in Russia.
Poor marx was a third rate intelectual…if you bother to read his rants you’ll find senseless hegelian jargon about the negation of the negation of the exchange value of the labour value of the spade. I think that when marx was five years old, his father threw a volume of Turgot’s works at his head. That’s how he got his brain damaged…
Marx art lover ? Give me a break…
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