bates in the context of Marxist aesthetics and Comintern strategybut ignored the
continuities in the underlying assumptions about identification, attachment,
and commitment.Particularly relevant to this studyare the intense struggles
over twovery different emotional models, the communitarian culturepromoted
by the cultural socialists in the SPD and the militant culture advocated by the
leading literary theorists in the KPD. As the next two chapters argue, therelated
struggles betweenahumanist model grounded in nineteenth-century concepts
of subjectivity andaSoviet-inspired model of emotional engineering can be re-
constructed through twocasestudies on the education of the proletarian child
and the liberation of proletarian sexuality that further expand the meaning of
proletarian culture.
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