Great book although I don't really agree his concluding chapter of Category X. I don't think one can materially participate in society and also fully extricate themselves from the hierarchies.
Yeah he let his optimism blind him on that part. There's always been a "Bohemian" set, his Class X was no revolution.
FYI if anyone wants to pick up the kindle version of this book from Amazon, don't bother. It is an incredibly poor quality scan of a physical book, compiled horizontally and full of pencil markings. I can't for the life of me see a way to report the listing, and the comments about this issue are drowned out by comments about the book contents and being ignored
In fairness, I would likely never been recommended that book unless this article had been published and remarked upon by you, so I think there was some value even if you consider it ancillary.