>re. sectarians, Granville Hicks, in responding to James T. Farrell's
>attack (_A Note on Literary Criticism_) on CP and *New Masses*,
>acknowledged constraining elements but suggested that sectarianism
>of Marxist (that is, party) critics was necessary response to
>aestheticism of bourgeois critics who deemed working class experience
>unsuitable for literature... Michael Hoover
I was just at a Labor Party meeting that was punctuated with several sermons from sectarians. It amazes me that anyone thinks that people will be persuaded by such jargon at this late date. Seems to me these folks need a little dose of the aesthetic, if only to make better agitprop.
Doug