The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

Frankfurt am Main towatchacast of two thousand perform de Man’sonlyplay. Herbert Graf, who latergainednotoriety as SigmundFreud’ ...

the organization’sgoal as follows:“The proletariat must arrive at its own culture. The life of the proletariat,their suffering,t ...

Sprechchor“by showing thetension between positive and negative forces that bringsforth the commitment to socialism through the e ...

olutionary workingclass and by de Man’sclose attention toamass-based psy- chologyofsocialism. Brought forth by these traditions ...

andhistorica lmaterialismof orthodox Marxism, he introduces theambitio us pro- gramofaculture of socialismbased on,and sustained ...

sciousness. Theserangefrom defeatist behaviors and compensatory beliefs born of oppressionto the individual longings located in ...

figuration of therevolutionary workingclass.Withemotionequated withmo- tion, physicalmovementcameto stand in for politicalmoveme ...

site of political mobilization.Based on his experiences workingwith various Leipzig-based amateur groups,hedescribed the maingoa ...

mythologyand socialist modernity.Stylistically, the ecstatic utopianism of early expressionism prevailed, notwithstanding occasi ...

contribution by the culturalsocialists. Meanwhile, Dieter Klenke has highlighted the close connections between theatrical and mu ...

spect was theirinabilityto imagine the workingclass outside the dramatic con- ventions of bourgeois individuality. Abrief overvi ...

werment to empowerment,whichwasmeant to resultinthe revolutionary deed. During the earlypostwaryears, ErnstToller’sMasse Mensch( ...

Chapter 13 Chapter.TakingaStand:The Habitus of Agitprop Aproletarianwhose facial expressions conveysubmission and resignation ...

ticulation of what in Marxist theory is calledKlassenstandpunkt(class stand- point).¹ In the increasingly polarized atmosphere o ...

Brecht’sinstructions for theLehrstücke(teachingplays), DarkoSuvininfact des- ignatesHaltungas the“terminus technicus ofaMarxist ...

women, for instance through the habitus of androgyny, will be considered in greater detail in chapter 18. Proletarian identifica ...

with the leadership claims of theBolsheviks as the vanguard party.⁸Under the influenceofthis proletarian moment,the most famous ...

ingsand the mood ofagiven society,or, if we have to do withasociety divided into classes, ofagiven social class,”the leading pro ...

was not supposedtolook like council-communist-turned-anarchistRühle (see figure 13.1), portrayed with bulging,bloodshot eyes by ...

Despite the drab setting,the man’sposture, his legs slightlyapart and knees tightlylocked, conveys confidenceand strength. His a ...