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In 1929, disillusioned by the revolution, Mayakovsky wrote a protest play about the growing repressiveness of the regime.
By a functioning left I mean among other things a left with ideas, a left whose advocates can put forward an analysis of what's wrong with the restructuring of the economy and the repressiveness of the culture, rather than avoid looking at the quality of their own lives via sentimental moralizing about what Neil Strauss' Springsteen review actually refers to as the "poor huddled masses."