Título: August Strindberg
Seção: Politics
Background: Johan August Strindberg (; Swedish: [2strInd,baerj] ( listen); 22 January 1849 - 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics.

Conteúdo: Influenced by the history of the Paris Commune, during 1871, young Strindberg embraced the view, that politics is a conflict between the upper and lower classes. He was admired by many as a far-left writer. He was a socialist (or perhaps more of an anarchist, meaning a libertarian socialist, which he himself claimed on at least one occasion). Strindberg's political opinions nevertheless changed considerably within this category over the years, and he was never primarily a political writer. Nor did he often campaign for any one issue, preferring instead to scorn his enemies manifesto-style - the military, the church, the monarchy, the politicians, the stingy publishers, the incompetent reviewers, the narrow-minded, the idiots - and he was not loyal to any party or ideology. Many of his works, however, had at least some politics and sometimes an abundance of it. They often displayed that life and the prevailing system were profoundly unjust and injurious to ordinary citizens.  The changing nature of his political positions shows in his changing stance on the women's rights issue. Early on, Strindberg was sympathetic to women of 19th-century Sweden, calling for women's suffrage as early as 1884. However, during other periods he had strongly misogynistic opinions, calling for lawmakers to reconsider the emancipation of these "half-apes ... mad ... criminal, instinctively evil animals." This is controversial in contemporary assessments of Strindberg, as have his antisemitic descri

user: What was Stridberg's involvement with politics?

assistant: young Strindberg embraced the view, that politics is a conflict between the upper and lower classes.

user: Did he publish anything about this?

assistant: Many of his works, however, had at least some politics and sometimes an abundance of it.

user: What are the names of his politically oriented works?

assistant: The changing nature of his political positions shows in his changing stance on the women's rights issue.

user: What was his thinking on women's rights?

assistant: Early on, Strindberg was sympathetic to women of 19th-century Sweden, calling for women's suffrage as early as 1884.

user: How did his attitude change?

assistant: during other periods he had strongly misogynistic opinions, calling for lawmakers to reconsider the emancipation of these "half-apes ... mad ... criminal, instinctively evil animals."

user: What were some of his other political attitudes?

assistant: Nor did he often campaign for any one issue, preferring instead to scorn his enemies manifesto-style -

user: Were any of his plays about politics?

assistant: Many of these attitudes, passions and behaviours may have been developed for literary reasons and ended as soon as he had exploited them in books.