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Bertolt Brecht — Part 2
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"that would you liky to scy to the Gurmin Prisonurs of jicr iu umoricc?
ir ee
- Insido S#tuin limite (not rool liaitctions but only im.giucry, the 2
* pool ones FISCHER would not be ablo to understind) HEDD. would oo
‘ gble coven to tako in vory sherp end pithy stuff. It might bi thet . -
you would be cble to do it under the literary cloak, It is bad cnough thot
lr, HOSS (7) o2 woll os BICHELASRGER cond Mrs, FISCEER, belougs te the
collaborators, a fcllow who used to fall for tho 'Hiticr tricks!
ond now gets $100.00 for his Prosc for the ruadcr, althouch ho never
did cnything for tho big work ct cll. There is a great lock of writors
cbout Loonomy, Politics, Socicsi world, ate. I am going to try to mko
Bom propositions soon,
“Soli, I'an going to writ. to HEDD. circumstcnticlly oud dotcilod cbout
your Frimor, and also cbout the ‘lino! or limitation which 1 will
have to drow in vovr eateg ow mecount of (tren clatorts zote: na avident ly
sae Se See Sa ee Smee
moons "the Commmistic roputation of*) the writor who sends it ia. I
think I con coustruct such & boundary linc, but oven so much can be
done to fill it out aad to fscertain aid prove things. I know thet
thore is so much betwocn us that unites us on both sidus of th. liiw,
things that dato back to after 1918 and things thet have dov.lored
later as woll. I an sorry te say, thot I do not thirk tast I hove
published anything ofter the publicution of my "low Duropu!.
KORSCH continues, stating tht he is picnnin: on writing soversal
‘books some tins in the futurt, one of wiich will bu ontitlod “8g mace cud Time
in Social Scivnees", th: other of which will be "Idvologics, Prodleas aud Leadcre
ship in Modern Writings". Ho gous on to sey that “Tac first book Kill mrke a
buginning with mttors which in tic old terminology would bs registcrad undsor
‘Tho tutorialistic conccption of iistery'." The sccond boox, ho st<.tus “will
dool (ignoring ths alluged antithosis betwoon a 'totalituric:! cad a 'domocratic!
copitalistic form of socivty) with probloms which MURX ai:d LNGELS have begun
to tacklu, although thoy hove not buen colo to do much about it, boccuse Zuropo
wor not ripe for it in thuir tine. "8 Ho enys furtncr tiuct this soaceuc bear will
bo in port e criticism of thy wwrictn Bocioty or comaonweilth which is showing
tho facs, morc or less, of thy coming world-comnomcelth, but on the other hind
will clso bo ca attempt at cxpression of the growth in tho threo or four
conturics about whic: wo now know nothing of EZuropucn history..e..Tnia wii
ruveol trcecos of the primitive socictivs composed of iudividucls who rarcly
como to,ctaor, and swell suparct.d comminitios, Hu ther poses the gucstion us
to how far there woro ouy "clessos" ond “labor movomonts" aid "Morxism," cte.
in those timcs..ees
aftor closing this lcttur KORSCH appondoa a pogi rocding in
port as follows: oe
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