| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: hundred human clams. Well, you go back there in 1920, and you find pavements
and a swell little hotel and a first-class ladies' ready-to-wear shop-real
perfection, in fact! You don't want to just look at what these small towns
are, you want to look at what they're aiming to become, and they all got an
ambition that in the long run is going to make 'em the finest spots on
earth--they all want to be just like Zenith!"
III
However intimate they might be with T. Cholmondeley Frink as a neighbor, as a
borrower of lawn-mowers and monkey-wrenches, they knew that he was also a
Famous Poet and a distinguished advertising-agent; that behind his easiness
were sultry literary mysteries which they could not penetrate. But to-night,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: do with them at all. In France they manage these things better.
There they do not allow the details of the trials that take place
in the divorce courts to be published for the amusement or
criticism of the public. All that the public are allowed to know
is that the divorce has taken place and was granted on petition of
one or other or both of the married parties concerned. In France,
in fact, they limit the journalist, and allow the artist almost
perfect freedom. Here we allow absolute freedom to the journalist,
and entirely limit the artist. English public opinion, that is to
say, tries to constrain and impede and warp the man who makes
things that are beautiful in effect, and compels the journalist to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective
duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for
the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the
only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism.
It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois --
for the benefit of the working class.
3. CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great
modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the
proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.
The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own
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