Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" 

The Manifesto: 
Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" 
<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm</a>

The Art 
Gogol - "The Overcoat" 
<a href="https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf</a>

Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" The Manifesto: Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm The Art Gogol - "The Overcoat" https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf

Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" 

The Manifesto: 
Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" 
<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm</a>

The Art 
Gogol - "The Overcoat" 
<a href="https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf</a>

Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts

Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.

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Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments. Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio May you continue to be a person. Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.

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