Status Updates From Literature and Revolution (...

"The artist takes life as he finds it, coloring his relation to it with a kind of lyric tone. He considers its foundations to be immovable and approaches it as uncritically as he does the solar system. And this passive conservatism of his forms the unseen pivot of his work".

I think it's quite commendable on how clear and structured Trotsky's vision for a socialist country is. I myself went into the introduction with a critical view, because what he describes – art being accessible to everyone – has befell an extent even the capitalist society, but his vision permeates even the present, where in the status quo art is done on the basic and indulgent level as a form of consumption...

Guys I promise I’m not a socialist now