His manifesto Futurism and Anarchy, published in The Barricade, attacked Marinetti on the basis that his attempt to produce an avant-garde aesthetic was undermined by his failure to renounce bourgeois politics: ‘How is it possible to imagine a bourgeois art in an anarchist society, or a futurist art in a bourgeois society?’
In his manifesto "Futurism and Anarchy," published in The Barricade, Marinetti's attempt to create avant-garde art was challenged by critics who argued that he remained tied to bourgeois politics. They questioned the possibility of producing an avant-garde aesthetic within an anarchist society or a futurist style within a bourgeois one.