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Cover -- Contents -- 1 Muslims murdering Christmas -- 2 Me Too and the rise of the Feminazi -- 3 Black Lives Matter stole my statue -- 4 Trans people are a menace to god-fearing toilets -- 5 Cancel culture and the cancellation of the space-time continuum by the woke left -- 6 The immigrants are eating the white working class! -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Why the Founding Fathers of the Frankfurt School should be considered anti-Marxist -- 2 Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A study of capitalist reification and the possibility of its overcoming -- 3 Against post-Marxism: How post-Marxism annuls class-based historicism and the possibilityof revolutionary praxis -- 4 Reification and its consequences formodern life -- 5 Literary Theory and the loss of the historical totality -- 6 Stephen King's IT and the proletariat as identical subject-object of the historical process -- 7 The retreat from class: The theoretical fundamentsof Moishe Postone's critique of Lukács -- 8 Revolution and counterrevolution in thought -- Notes -- Index.

"Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art is a diverse, colourful and eclectic set of essays of historical and cultural analyses. From the genesis of Islam as a social movement, to an account of Goya's art in the context of feudal absolutism and the Napoleonic wars, to The Da Vinci Code, and much more besides." --Publisher's description

"Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective provides a historical and dialectical journey through some of the most salient and abiding works of art, literature, TV series and film, including the analysis of more classical forms such as the paintings of Van Gogh or work by Balzac and Bronte, alongside modern elements which are on the cutting edge of contemporary culture - like HBO's Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, True Detective, the life and music of Tupac Shakur, the comedy of Ricky Gervais and more. The author demonstrates, with a lucid and literary style, how these works and artists are important more broadly; how they manage to weave into a fantasy fabric the fundamental forms of the historical realities in which we are enmeshed; how each is stamped with that historical necessity. "--