Art and the Class Struggle

An introduction to the important topic of art and revolution. Because man does not live by politics alone! Some people consider that art is a secondary matter, not really important. Yet art is actually one of the fundamental aspects of the human condition - so fundamental, that some anthropologists believe that one can express the beginnings of our species through the emergence of art. If art represents a kind of mirror—and it does represent a kind of mirror in which society can see itself reflected—then this is a very faithful reflection of bourgeois society in the 21st century. This represents a crisis of culture and its final degradation. But in a sense even this art has got something to say to us, it is telling us that culture under capitalism can no longer develop. It is a very serious message and therefore the task that now falls to the proletariat. This is what we are fighting for. We are fighting, not only for the economic emancipation of the proletariat, we are fighting for th