> Wilson writes, "The Leftist critic with no literary competence is always trying to measure works of literature by tests which have no validity in that field." Strongly recommend _The Two Marxisms_, by Irving Gouldner, especially the last chapter, "Nightmare Marxism." It is a Marxist critique of Marxism showing how the internal contradictions of Marx's utopian scheme surfaced in drafting Das Kapital, and how both Karl and his cash-cow and editor, Fred Engels, chose to ignore them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html