Writers on art from the Marxist tradition often seize on the Eroica.
This, however, was not surprising because "Marxist intellectual tradition attached greater significance to socio-economic forces than to political history and the role of individuals."
It was a period of intense debate, not only amongst politicians but also between many outstanding economists working within the Marxist tradition.
The Marxist tradition emphasises the dominance of capital in the economy of western nations.
Saul is a socialist, and is considered to be an activist-academic in the broader Marxist tradition.
Writers on art from the Marxist tradition have commented on the Eroica.
For many if not most writers in the Marxist or neo-Marxist tradition, the state is an 'arena of class struggle'.
Since then it has been used by a number of writers on economics and society, mainly but not exclusively in the Marxist tradition.
But, above all, the moral and radical impulse which lay behind the Marxist tradition needs to be preserved.
Both also grew out of the Marxist intellectual tradition.