Proletcult: Proletarian Culture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Proletcult: Proletarian CultureAim, tendency, purpose, this is the leading feature of proletarian culture. Not education for education's sake but revolutionary educa tion, i.e., education for revolutionary ends. The origins Of this class-conscious and partisan edu cation are but new illustrations of the working of the forces which, in Marxist theory, are sum marised under the name of the materialist con ception of history. Developing industrial technique brings about a development of proletarian con sciousness. This gives rise to a proletarian cul ture, to Proletcult. And the first aim of Proletcult (in its prerevolutionary phase) is to Simplify, to concentrate, to discard everything which does not contribute to the growth of a fighting culture. Not general culture. Professedly unbiased, but a fighting culture, admittedly tendentious, is the avowed aim Of the revolutionary proletariat. Does this horrify the champions Of unbiased educa tion Nay, but we are ready, we are eager, to Offer a general apologia for tendency in science! We echo Bergson and say' We do not aim generally at knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but in order to take sides, to draw profit - in short, to satisfy an interest. (introduction to M eta physics, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.