Do you agree or disagree with the Marxist critics? Is all literature politically charged? Take into consideration the literary canon in your response. Take a position in the debate and support it. Your answer should be at least one hundred words.

Caudwell was accused of evincing bourgeois idealist lapses in his view of human psyche. Caudwell theories and outlines have been widely learned.

It argues for socialist realism and is anti Freud, anti Joyce and anti Proust. But it is not doctrinaire.

Fox, Richards, F R Leavis also criticised but positively. The left has been discredited because of its association with Stalinism.