Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
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IN ONE of his poems, written while in exile from nazi Germany, Bertolt Brecht poses the question: “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”
It is a question about politics and poetry that we all need to ask ourselves, in these different yet still “dark times.” What is the role of poetry, and art and culture generally, in modern capitalist society?
Clearly the world is not as savagely and violently divided as it was in Brecht’s day, no matter how hard the warmongers in the US, the EU and Britain try to provoke, start and continue military violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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