“In the past fifteen years, Marxist approaches towards literature have enjoyed increasing vogue. To be conscious of the social context of art seems to automatically entail a leftist orientation. But a theory is possible that is both avant-garde and capitalist. Marxism was one of Rousseau’s nineteenth-century progeny, energized by faith in the perfectabilty of man. Its believed that economic forces are the primary dynamic force in history is Romantic naturism in disguise. … Marxism is the bleakest of anxiety-formations against the power of cthonian mothers.”

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 36

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "In the past fifteen years, Marxist approaches towards literature have enjoyed increasing vogue. To be conscious of the …" by Camille Paglia?
Camille Paglia photo
Camille Paglia 326
American writer 1947

Related quotes

Henry Mintzberg photo
Jean Baudrillard photo
Joseph Goebbels photo
Dana Gioia photo

“Western thinkers had merged liberalism and Marxism to produce the theory of democratic socialism and in the process emasculated both.”

Girilal Jain (1924–1993) Indian journalist

Page 152, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Marxism

Heinrich Himmler photo
Karl Kautsky photo
Joseph Goebbels photo
Bob Black photo

“Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy — anarchism minus Marxism — will be free to get better at being what it is.”

Bob Black (1951) American anarchist

Introduction
Anarchy after Leftism (1997)

Fidel Castro photo

“Marxism-Leninism is an explanation of historical events; Marxism-Leninism is a guide for action, Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of the proletariat, which must guide, make its action conscious to overthrow exploiters, to establish a classless society.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Speech (2 December 1971) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1971/esp/f021271e.html

Related topics