Abstract
This is an abridged translation of a manifesto article, first published in French in 1957, by the Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre. It argues for a new “revolutionary romanticism” as an appropriate aesthetic for Western anti-capitalist movements outside the party-form. Beginning with an assessment of the subjective alienation of everyday life, he proposes that a revolutionary culture could be founded upon a valorization of the future and “the possible.” He argues that the romanticism of this approach is materialist in new terms by presenting a theoretical account of subjective transcendence founded upon the future. The text critically describes and anticipates the aesthetic adopted by the Situationist International.
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