id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-191535	Sipley, Tristan	Proletarian Pastoral Reconsidered: Reading Mike Gold in an Age of Ecological Crisis	2019	28	.pdf	application/pdf	11256	558	54	When Mikey asks if God had made flies and bedugs, his skeptical musings, with their implication of cosmic injustice, foreshadow his impending loss of faith and his embrace of socialism as the “true Messiah” at the end of the novel; but this rhetorical question is also a political statement on Lower East Side living conditions. This real-life instance of modern urban planning turned a bustling Lower East Side street into a wide boulevard, in a process not unlike the reactionary Haussmannisation of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.11 For an explication of this process one need go no further than Frederick Engels’ essay on “The Housing Question”: By “Haussmann” I mean the practice which has now become general of making breaches in the working-class quarters of our big towns, and particularly in those which are centrally situated . . .	cache/clogic-191535.pdf	txt/clogic-191535.txt