The German Left and Aesthetic Politics Cultural Politics between the Second and Third Internationals (Historical Materialism, 237)

About the Author\nMartin I. Gaughan, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin in politics and economics, was awarded a PhD at the University of East Anglia, ('Berlin Dadaism and Constructivism', 1982). He has published German Art 1907-1937. Modernism and Modernisation (Peter Lang, 2007), and contributed chapters to other publications.\nThe German Left and Aesthetic Politics examines the important role of a materialist aesthetic practice as an integrative element constructing the cultural ‘third pillar of socialism’, within the factional politics of the left in Germany between the Second and Third Internationals.