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Culture Beyond Capital: Art, Authenticity, and the 21st Century Workers’ Movement

Cliff Connolly, July 10, 2019

The course of the twentieth century has seen art and culture become increasingly subsumed into the logic of capital. A crucial element of a base-building strategy must be to foster an alternative proletarian culture outside the sphere of commodity production for the cultural enrichment and self-expression of workers, argues Cliff Connolly. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

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Knowledge Democratization, Bourgeois Specialists and the Organization of Science in the Early Soviet Union

Renato Flores, October 25, 2020

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Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky

Cliff Connolly, January 21, 2021

In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin's views regarding art. This text was originally published in “Khudozhnik i Zritel” (Artist and Audience), issues 2-3, March-April 1924, and has been translated by Reuben Woolley. Introduction by Cliff Connolly. The original source of the translation can be found here. Read Article.