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Avant-garde and Kitsch
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Courage indeed was needed for this, because the avant-garde's emigration from bourgeois society to bohemia meant also an emigration from the markets of capitalism, upon which artists and writers had been thrown by the falling away of aristocratic patronage.†
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capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
It is lucky, however, for Repin that the peasant is protected from the products of American capitalism, for he would not stand a chance next to a Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell.†
The same holds true, of course, for capitalist countries and makes all talk of art for the masses there nothing but demagogy.†

capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
What the acceptance of the isolation of the Russian Revolution forces Stalin to do, Hitler is compelled to do by his acceptance of the contradictions of capitalism and his efforts to freeze them.†

capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
Capitalism in decline finds that whatever of quality it is still capable of producing becomes almost invariably a threat to its own existence.†

Definitions:

(1) (capitalism)
an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses

Proponents of capitalism argue that voluntary exchanges tap into people’s local knowledge and natural self-interest, channeling millions of everyday decisions into broader benefits for society. At the same time, most of them also support a role for government in addressing problems that “pure” capitalism handles poorly—such as monopolies, shared costs and benefits like pollution and national defense, and providing a safety net for those who are hit by bad luck.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)