: Wilde wasn't an unrestrained Libertarian and his social status isn't all that important.Social status is always important. The ideology a person chooses is (usually) one that is compatible with (and improves) one's social status.
: Wilde supported/was a member of the Fabian Society notoriously statist with authoritarian tendencies.
If you read my post 'The Artist As Ideology' (3083), you would have known that this observation supports my position that the artist substantiates hierarchy (therefore authority).
: Bakunin on class struggle: Working class and all men of good will from other class will find it their responsibility to bring about revolution.
Marx and Engels: 'Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour...a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.'(1) Again: The ideology a person chooses is (usually) one that is compatible with (and improves) one's social status. Marx wanted a world where his unpublished writings would become a literary tradition. Hence the retention of hierarchy in his system...
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1. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (International, 1948), p. 19.
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