All 6 Uses of
socialism
in
Avant-garde and Kitsch
- 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.'†
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- 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.†
Definition:
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(socialism) an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people