REALISM IN MARXISM 51 20 Ibid. See also my introductory note, ^Brecht and Lukacs: A Review", Journal oj the School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Winter 1973-74, p 83. 21 Mittenzwei (1978;, p 12ff. 122 Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, London, p 188ff. This introduction forms part of the Grand} isse. See also Man fred Neumann (ed), Gesell-schaft, Literatur, Lesen, Literaturrezeption in theoretischer Sicht, Berlin and Weimar, 1975. 12} Mittenzwei (1978). 24 Mittenzwei (1975), p 56. •25 The major documents of this debate are collected in Ha.'is-Jurgen Schmidt (ed). Die Expressionismusdebatte, Materialien zu ewer Marxislischen realismuskonzeption, Frankfurt a M, 1973. Lukacs's essay "Realism in the Balance" and Brecht^s polemics, including the important "Popularity and Realism", are included in Aesthetics and Politics, London, 1977. The English translations of these essays are mainly from this edition. 2J In Aesthetics and Politics this is translated more freely, tt . . . . which arc the progressive trends in the literature of today? It is the fate of realism that hangs in the balance", p 30. 27 Mittenzwei, "Gesichspunkte zar Entwicklung der Literatur Aheoretischcn Position Georg Lukacs", in Dialog und Kontroverse mit Georg Lukacs, op cit. 28 Express ionismusdebatte, p 303. s9 Ibid, p 309. so Ibid, p 310; Aesthetics and Politics, p 70. Bl Expressionismusdebatie; Aesthetics and Politics. 82 ExpressionismusdebattC) p 312f; Aesthetics and Politics, p 72f. 8i Expressionismusdebatte, pp 329-339; Aesthetics and Politics, pp 79-85. s4 Volker Braun, "Literatur und Geschichtsbewusstsein", in Im Querschnitt, Halle fSaak), 1979. 1(5 Lenin, On Culture and Cultural Revolution, Moscow, 1978, p 147.