Chapter 13. Taking a Stand: The Habitus of Agitprop

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Imperial Germany
7. Chapter 1. The Threat of the Proletariat and the Discourse of the Masses 33
8. Chapter 2. Proletarian Dreams: From Marx to Marxism 49
9. Chapter 3. Emotional Socialism and Sentimental Masculinity 64
10. Chapter 4. On Workers Singing in One Voice 84
11. Chapter 5. The Proletarian Prometheus and Socialist Allegory 100
12. Chapter 6. Ferdinand Lassalle, the First Socialist Celebrity 120
13. Chapter 7. Re/Writing Workers’ Emotions 138
14. Chapter 8. The Socialist Project of Culture and Education 155
15. Part Two: Weimar Republic
16. Chapter 9. Revolutionary Fantasy and Proletarian Masculinity 177
17. Chapter 10. The Revolutionary Fantasy Revisited 193
18. Chapter 11. Franz Wilhelm Seiwert’s Critical Empathy 205
19. Chapter 12. Social Democracy and the Performance of Community 222
20. Chapter 13. Taking a Stand: The Habitus of Agitprop 238
21. Chapter 14. Marxist Literary Theory and Communist Militant Culture 255
22. Chapter 15. The Emotional Education of the Proletarian Child 270
23. Chapter 16. Wilhelm Reich and the Politics of Proletarian Sexuality 288
24. Chapter 17. John Heartfield’s Productive Rage 301
25. Chapter 18. Kuhle Wampe and “Those Who Don’t Like It” 319
26. Afterword: A Historiography of the Proletarian Dream 334
27. Select Bibliography 357
28. Index 362