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

cupation with the question of tendency. Demanding that all true artreflect the contradictions of the age, including art in capit ...

ilyconcerned with the relationship between literature and politics, the partici- pants in the originaltendentious art debate set ...

journalist,offeredacompromise solution that allowed for the temporary inclu- sion ofafew classic works in an evolving socialist ...

bates in the context of Marxist aesthetics and Comintern strategybut ignored the continuities in the underlying assumptions abou ...

Chapter 15 Chapter.The Emotional Education of the ProletarianChild The proletarian child is born intohis class–moreprecisely, ...

As it turned out in 1918/19, youth also meantlife after war and empire and, most relevantto this study, life in revolutionary ti ...

gogy and proletarian children’sliterature. In line with the expanded definitionof culturepresented in this book, the turn toward ...

labor,truancy,and vagrancy laws and to relyonthe youth welfare system as an instrument of social control (e.g., through state ho ...

Seekamp near Kiel, annual summer camps for thousandsofworking-class chil- dren modeled the organization of thesetent cities on t ...

In preparingthe nextgeneration for the classless society of the future, the children’srepublics insisted on shared work responsi ...

form, Hoernle advocated buildingclass consciousness by encouragingchildren’s participation in massrallies and propaganda campaig ...

growingupworkingclass, beginning with the feelingsofinferiority mentioned in manyworkers’life writingsand extensivel ydiscussed ...

uniquenature of their state of consciousness. In other words,asocialism that appealsto the emotions; the sense of camaraderie;th ...

apronounced cultureofresentment,with some workers wishing others to be treated as badlyasthey had been. Drawingperhaps on his wo ...

haupt duringthe 1970sand 1980s.²³The enduringdisregard for didacticismin literatureisone reason for the neglect of children’slit ...

to Berta Lask’sMarxist world history ofAufdem Flügelpferde durch die Zeiten: Bilder vom Klassenkampf derJahrtausende (1925,Onthe ...

and actsof imitation areessentialto thissocialization into classconscious- ness;the same holds true forthe emotional processes i ...

abovescene presentsFritz’sstruggles from the point-of-view of the twoyoung communists who watch fromadistance and then approach ...

ischesKasperletheaterseries by theBerlin-basedA. HoffmannVerlag.²⁶Afa- mous character from the German puppet theater tradition,K ...

sacks of money,stop kingsfromreturningto their castles,and resist the temp- tations of the“booze devil”and the“beer witch.”After ...