If we want an inclusive, egalitarian, constructed-on-consent world, we're going to need a new literary canon (because right now it's still impossible to study English literature without starting with the King James Bible and its highly problematic archaic world view) and while we're getting there we'd need to acknowledge that the canon is unstable. _Really_ unstable.

Which in turn means acknowledging that "good" is a response to, rather than a property of, the work. Which is most of the way to pitching the default authoritarian organizing principle right there.

Anybody really invested in the excellence of any extant body of work is going to have issues with that, and very plausibly dismissive issues.