To Hell With Culture: Fascism, Rhetoric, and the War for Democracy

Anarchist Studies - ISSN 2633-8270
Volume 23 Number 2

To Hell With Culture: Fascism, Rhetoric, and the War for Democracy
Matthew Adams pages -

Abstract

To Hell With Culture was Herbert Read’s most concise exposition of his aesthetic politics, but it was a work moulded by the particular context in which he wrote. Starting life as a contribution to a series of pamphlets pondering the shape of Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War, Read drew on a deep reading of socialist intellectual history to plot a new, radical path for democracy. His text was a necessary utopia, presenting an outcry against the cultural barbarities of both the capitalist and totalitarian superpowers, and entering a battle of ideas to determine the shape of post-war Europe.

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Matthew Adams (2015) To Hell With Culture: Fascism, Rhetoric, and the War for Democracy, Anarchist Studies, 23(2), -

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