CPUSA critic Joshua Kunitz, reviewing Kenneth Burke, as quoted on pg. 289 of, "Writers on the Left, " the classic by Daniel Aaron.
"His program is essentially an innocuous and petty nihilism ; his 'negative' aesthetic is the the philosophy of the 'petty-bourgeois gone mad.' Inefficiency, indolence, dissapation, vacilation, mockery, distrust, hypochondria, non-conformity, bad sportsmanship, dislike of propaganda, dislike of certainty, treason, these according to Burke are the desiderata of the present..." The New Masses, April 1931, pgs. 16-20.