1923: What Is Proletarian Culture, and Is It Possible?

On the eve of the Second World War, when mankind was locked in a life and death struggle in every continent, Trotsky found time to write a manifesto in collaboration with the famous …

While in Mexico, Trotsky worked with André Breton and Diego Rivera to write the Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, published in 1938, which emphasized the need for artistic …

Art is created on the basis of a continual everyday, cultural, ideological inter-relationship between a class and its artists. Between the aristocracy or the bourgeoisie and their artists there was …

Apr 1, 2007 · There are the elements of this art, there are hints and attempts at it, and, what is most important, there is the revolutionary man, who is forming the new generation in his own …

There, he became acquainted with Leon Trotsky and co-authored the Manifesto with him. [5] The published Manifesto was signed by Breton and Rivera. The document called for the …

Aug 31, 2020 · This article aims to rescue an important debate raised by Leon Trotsky in his book Literature and Revolution (1924), which deals with the relationship between art and politics.

Oct 23, 2008 · Trotsky begins by discussing the different components of culture: technology and material culture, philosophy, the natural sciences, and the arts and humanities.

In terms of culture and art, Trotsky was becoming deeply pessimistic in the late 1930s about the "civilizing" role of high art as fascism marched forward. In a manifesto "Towards a Free …

Leon Trotsky, from Literature and Revolution (1924) The error of the “Lef,” at least of some of its theorists, app ears to us in its most generalized form, when they make an ultimatum for the …