*buntong hininga*
Ah...the dilemma of the petty-bourgeois Marxist...
"His heart and his sensibility draw him irresistibly towards the city's bright lights, beautiful women, fashion, luxury, its play of dazzling surfaces and radiant scenes; meanwhile his Marxist conscience wrenches him insistently away from these temptations, instructs him that this whole glittering world is decadent, hollow, vicious, spiritually empty, oppressive to the proletariat, condemned by history."
-Berman sa kanyang paglalarawan kay Walter Benjamin, isang kilalang kritiko ng kulturang kapitalista.
"His heart and his sensibility draw him irresistibly towards the city's bright lights, beautiful women, fashion, luxury, its play of dazzling surfaces and radiant scenes; meanwhile his Marxist conscience wrenches him insistently away from these temptations, instructs him that this whole glittering world is decadent, hollow, vicious, spiritually empty, oppressive to the proletariat, condemned by history."
-Berman sa kanyang paglalarawan kay Walter Benjamin, isang kilalang kritiko ng kulturang kapitalista.
