{"id":23007,"date":"2012-09-15T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/what-is-criticism-karl-marx-had-a-pretty-good\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:04:17","slug":"what-is-criticism-karl-marx-had-a-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/what-is-criticism-karl-marx-had-a-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>What is criticism? Karl Marx had a pretty good idea. On a perfect day in a perfect world, he wrote, a happy citizen might \u2018hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening\u2019 and, finally and best of all, \u2018criticize after dinner,\u2019 perhaps with a bottle of wine on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Marx understood that criticism doesn\u2019t mean delivering petty, ill-tempered Simon Cowell-like put-downs. It doesn\u2019t necessarily mean heaping scorn. It means making fine distinctions. It means talking about ideas, aesthetics and morality as if these things matter (and they do). It\u2019s at base an act of love. Our critical faculties are what make us human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/19\/magazine\/a-critic-makes-the-case-for-critics.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=print\">A Critic\u2019s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical<\/a>.\u201d (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/marathonpacks.tumblr.com\/\">marathonpacks<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is criticism? Karl Marx had a pretty good idea. On a perfect day in a perfect world, he wrote, a happy citizen might \u2018hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening\u2019 and, finally and best of all, \u2018criticize after dinner,\u2019 perhaps with a bottle of wine on the table. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Z5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}