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As yet no aesthetic standards have been introduced. Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organisation of labour.

— Christopher Caudwell Christopher St. John Sprigg (1937)

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All relations are determining. ... As soon as we realise there is a determining relation, and become conscious of its nature and how it grips us, we are that much freer.

Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949)

The bourgeois ... is free not because he is conscious of his causality, but because he is ignorant of the social causes that determine his being.

Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949)

The bourgeois never included the ownership of capital as one of the social restraints that should be abolished, for the simple reason that it was not to him a restraint at all. It never therefore entered his head to regard it as such, and he saw nothing inconsistent in calling for the abolition of privilege, monopoly, and so forth, while hanging on to his capital.

Studies in a Dying Culture (1938)

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