All 6 Uses
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Avant-garde and Kitsch
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- No, if the masses crowd into the Tretyakov (Moscow's museum of contemporary Russian art: kitsch), it is largely because they have been conditioned to shun 'formalism' and to admire 'socialist realism.'†
*socialist = a person who wants an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- The state is helpless in this matter and remains so as long as the problems of production have not been solved in a socialist sense.†
- Since these regimes cannot raise the cultural level of the masses — even if they wanted to — by anything short of a surrender to international socialism, they will flatter the masses by bringing all culture down to their level.†
- Today we no longer look toward socialism for a new culture — as inevitably as one will appear, once we do have socialism.†
- Today we no longer look toward socialism for a new culture — as inevitably as one will appear, once we do have socialism.†
- Today we look to socialism simply for the preservation of whatever living culture we have right now.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(socialism) an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)