Baudelaire From the Perspective of Marxism:On Benjamin's The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire
Under the guidance of Historical Materialism,Benjamin criticized Baudelaire for overstating the revolutionary power of the independence of the author and works:Baudelaire was obsessed with the destructiveness of the poetry riots and modernist heroes to so-ciety,but did not know that the real power of revolution was the proletariat;Strolling through Arcades and empathizing with crowds might seem like resistance to labor alienation,but in reality,he became a commodity for selling labor;The Modernist aesthetic theory put for-ward to achieve artistic self-discipline strengthened the momentum of capitalist commodity fetishism because of the illusory image of production divorced from social reality.Benjamin transcended Baudelaire and became the author as producer,aiming to launch a real technological revolution to promote the arrival of the proletarian revolution.
Walter BenjaminBaudelaireHistorical Materialismthe author as producer
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