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Affairs Center, where sanctuary and Marxist lectures are given to rebels from other African territories, including countries run by Nkrumah's black rivals...
...satire of capitalist society lacked applicability within the Soviet Union, where audiences were confronted with entirely different sets of problems. Unforgiven on the left for his bourgeois origins and preoccupations, this son of a wealthy Bavarian paper manufacturer was simultaneously feared on the right. A self-made Marxist, Brecht was left an ideological orphan...
Submission is indeed a major theme, uniting Brecht's pre-Marxist plays with his later work. Of In the Swamp, for instance, the author tells us he is presenting a great struggle between two men ... but he offers hardly any fighting at all. The mutual preoccupation of Shlink and Garga seems far more akin to love than hate, and when, years later, Brecht writes that he sees in this play naive intimations of class struggle, he is only superimposing political analysis upon his non-Marxist work. Similarly in A Man's a Man (pre-Marxist) a simple porter, Galy...
Still further in Galileo, Mother Courage, and The Good Woman of Setzuan (three of the Marxist plays in the present volume) the playwright illustrates what each of his major characters must give up. To Brecht yielding is psychologically far more important (or intriguing) than acquisition. The roots of his negativism may lie in the vicinity of this fact...
...recent years: the growing tendency for Catholics to espouse conservative political views. (New York liberals and conservatives alike privately admit that liberal movements tend to enlist large numbers of Jews, while conservativism appeals primarily to Catholics.) But while an ethnic interpretation of the rally might be reasonable, a Marxist one clearly is out -- the students were from all economic levels. It was by no means a rally of "Wall Street ruling circles...