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The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning.


Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernal
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/

Music: ROME- The Accidents of Gesture

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