The Left's Relationship With Literature

Alex Castellanos: There's a long and great tradition of leftist writers who are champions of communism, champions of the working class in revolution. What our magazine kind of wanted to respond to was this trend, not just exclusively to the left, but the literary world more widely, he says. Castellanos argues that canonical writing is another mechanism employed by the bourgeoisie to strip society of the opportunity to really engage with great art. He writes poetry "that's really purely inward looking and writing often disconnected from the real world"