This People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies class features a guest lecturer from the Arts and Culture Commission of the PCUSA. If you can get through the subpar audio quality (we apologize) in this episode, you're sure to learn something new!
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No Literature Used In This Class
Recommended Reading:
Man & Socialism in Cuba by Che Guevara (1965)
http://209.151.22.101/Cuba-Che/Guevar...
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold (2004)
No link available
Recommended Viewing:
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (1929)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYZ5...
Recommended Listening:
Risen from Ruins by Hanns Eisler (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyP...
PSMLS Website:
http://peoplesschool.org/contact/
Party of Communists USA Website:
https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/
Timecode Key:
(Q) = Question
(A) = Answer / Response
**S.R. = Socialist Realism**
0:00 Introduction
0:41 Opening Lecture
2:57 S.R. = synthesis of other art forms? (Q&A)
4:22 10 Days reference
4:58 S.R. vs. Cultural Revolution
5:45 Dialectical progression
6:22 3 trends in Soviet Art
10:12 Ultraleft connections to S.R.? (Q&A)
10:51 Progressive elements of S.R.? (Q&A)
12:30 Why is S.R. important? (Q&A)
13:30 Brutalism & Independence? (Q's&A's)
16:30 Musical examples
16:58 4 Guiding principles
20:37 Old vs. new Art contradictions? (Q&A)
22:50 Was modern art banned? (Q&A)
23:00 Art as a hobby? (Q&A)
23:50 Art under Khrushchev
24:33 Art after Khrushchev
24:57 Not just Russia
25:39 Lecture conclusion
28:11 Our contributions
29:26 L.A. Communist mural
29:45 Art and morality
30:48 Art and the masses
31:32 How to apply today? (Q&A)
32:26 U.S.S.R. & art
32:55 Art and the national question (Q&A)
33:31 Che Guevara quote
34:13 Soviet sound
34:27 Growth of culture
35:19 The Soviet man? (Q&A)
36:16 Diego Rivera
36:30 Hanns Eisler
37:18 Conclusion
