Is Romantic Anti-Capitalism Proletarian? 'The Poetry of Class' with Patrick Eiden-Offe & Jacob Blumenfeld

Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our
chains! But just who is this ‘we’? How do we identify the
proletariat, the revolutionary subject, and how does the
proletariat identify itself in the midst of an intensifying
threat of economic precarity and capitalist immiseration. This
‘we’, to quote Wilhelm Weitling, is a tricky question. Today
we’re taking a dive into Historical Materialism with the latest
book in the series “The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism
and the Invention of the Proletariat”, with author Patrick
Eiden-Offe and translator Jacob Blumenfeld. We discuss the work
of Weitling, Marx, Engels, Hess, Tieck, and Lukacs in exploring
re-evaluations of Romantic Anti-Capitalism, and the leftist
literary scene today.


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