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Class is not an ancient or natural order—it’s manufactured. While we Marxists often speak in binaries like bourgeoisie and proletariat, the idea of class is much broader. Marx saw class as a group of people with intrinsic tendencies that differed from other groups in the society. But across the world, especially under British imperialism, class
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The restless, relentless, mechanical and thunderous beat goes on as the left hand begins to pound the piano. The right hand follows suite and thus begins one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most well known compositions- his Prelude in G Minor from Études-Tableaux Op. 39 No. 6. While Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor seems to be glorious
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Symphony of Censorship When Dmitri Shostakovich premiered Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934, its bold orchestration and raw emotional intensity shocked and thrilled Soviet audiences—until it terrified the regime. The modernist and sexually charged opera where Shostakovich intended to show the patriarchal society in which we live in, where through frustration and years of abuse
