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

what,for manyexpressionist artists, constituted the deeplyreligious and in- tenselyemotional qualities of modernmass mobilizatio ...

asupplicant.Tothem, his abject stance not onlyrepresented the failed project of social reform and liberal humanism but also the ...

class overgender,confirms the degree to which masculinist bodypractices sus- tained therevolutionary fantasy,and that despite th ...

Afterall, Imyself workedasaprofessional gardener for eight to ten hoursaday and felt it in my bones.But Idid not wantto present ...

graphs showaslender womanre-enacting proletarian masculinity through the tension between oppression andresistance. Knowledge of ...

phone) agitprop theater troupe offeredvery concrete recommendations for fellow performers in the artand science of embodied ideo ...

straints had something of the reflective polish of metalsand glass.”²³Speakingin general terms,Hanns Eisler identifiedasthe dist ...

thrashing SPD and quickly striking KPD.”²⁶In line with this kind of aggressive language(e.g., cold, sharp,tough, terse, energeti ...

theaterrepertoireasthe director of the Maxim-Gorki Theater in EastBerlin.Jean Weidt came from Paris to train new dance ensembles ...

Chapter 14 MarxistLiteraryTheoryand Communist Militant Culture The“literary writer”glorifies the proletarian because he,adeclass ...

werewritten duringhis imprisonment for high treason.¹In light of the compen- satory and anticipatory function of much leftwing l ...

nist militant culture introduced in chapter 13 through the embodied habitus of agitprop and examined here through the literary d ...

to preserveapure ideal that would otherwise be tainted and damaged by the de- mands of politics.”³ The communitarian ideals of t ...

party and the KPD asavanguard party of the Leninist type and articulate the aspirational values of these competingmodels in reco ...

ty,aKampfkultur.”⁶Antagonism under these conditions meant conflict with not onlythe democratic institutions of theWeimar Republi ...

substitute forrevolutionary action–apoint confirmed by the KPD’sunwilling- ness to form viable alliances with other leftist grou ...

Mark Roman (Red-One-Mark Novel) series; the Neue DeutscheVerlag, which functioned as the publishing arm ofWilli Münzenberg’sInte ...

scribedaliterature borneofthe drumfire of war and the street battle of revolu- tion. Stationed in an important section on the fr ...

imaginary.¹⁷With these largerquestions in mind, Hermann Duncker proposed that proletarian writers once and for all jettison the ...

tuallydismissed astoomechanisticand replaced by“partiality”as the aestheti- callyand politically more productive term. August Wi ...