There is a social analysis that he begins to be able to advance partly due to his reading in Marxism, in sociology.

有种观点说是理查,受到马克思主义的社会学的影响开始进步。

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In other words, how can poetry in this view -how can literature be progressive?

文学怎么能,推动社会的进步呢？

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Its purpose is to facilitate, not simply to control and inhibit.

请记住，法律是为了督导社会进步，而不是简单的禁止和控制。

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