Mises Daily
Author:
Henry Hazlitt
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[Editor’s Note: This essay, a prescient blast at the then growing problem of Marxism in literary criticism, was published as an appendix in Henry Hazlitt’s 1933 book The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue . The same arguments, of course, apply to claims used in criticism that certain literature is worthless because it supports “the patriarchy” or