Word: engelsian
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...trouble lay in the comedy's innocence of ideology. In Moscow manners are no substitute for Marxist morals, or elegance for Engelsian ethics. Izvestia, speaking in terms recognizable to Western criticism, denounced "the all-corrosive and therefore all-justifying irony of Wilde's esthetic principle" as being "far from the true realistic satire" of Swift and Dickens. Izvestia dubbed it "the principle of decadence," and flayed the performers for entering "so deeply into their parts that they lost their touch with reality. They seem to have forgotten whom they are portraying-who the play's heroes...
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