I don’t intend a live blog of Garrett’s book Harangue (1926)--about half finished--but I did want to share these observations on the socialist movement of the 1920s, in the words of one of the characters who treats the whole movement with some distance. Elsewhere, Garrett treats the problem of how and why the wealthy "buy" socialist ideology as a means of distinguishing themselves from the bourgeoisie. Here we have the anatomy of the movement as this one character understands it: Youth in its radical, self-conscious phase, and not very vital, else it would not ha[...]
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