The empty Paper whose whiteness defends.

Socialist Realism and Critical Theory

[redhagiography]

Dmitry Shorin - 3D (2010)

[redhagiography]

Александр Лабас. Полет на Луну. 1935 Aleksandr Labas - Flight to the Moon 1935

[redhagiography]

Psychedelic Swastika Soviet cash from early 20s.

Luckily Lunacharsky warned everyone in time that this symbol was being adopted by some right wing groups and about to become really inappropriate... it's use was discontinued by 1922

[thesovietbroadcast]

1970′s ★☭ – Dawn in the motherland.

[redhagiography]

Я отсюда родом. Я из Советского Союза. Советский Союз я защищаю до смерти. Это была моя Родина. Сейчас я живу Бог его знает где. Нас посетила какая-то чума. Но она скоро закончится. Самое главное оружие - это терпение. Нужно терпеливо воевать, не принимать, и постоянно гадить этой чуме. Пока она не сломается.

Е. Летов

[redhagiography]

Илья ЧАШНИК - Космос. Красный круг на чёрной поверхности, 1925 Ilya CHASHNIK - Space. Red circle on a black surface, 1925

[redhagiography]

Aleksandr Rodchenko Young Pioneer Girl, I9JO. Photograph, printed from original negative, 29.3 x 20. 6 em.

[redhagiography]

S U N

[redhagiography]

Lenin in the Tretyakov

[redhagiography]

Ilya Repin - The Annual Meeting in Memory of the French Communards at the pere-Lachaise Cemetary in Paris (1883)

[redhagiography]

Barge Haulers on the Volga - Ilya Repin (1870 - 1873)

  “Take note of their faces and then look at the steamship speeding in the distance, and you will understand that the task of art is great and sacred, that its role consists not of the tickle of aesthetic ability, that it can awaken the conscience, awaken thought and feeling.” - Mikhailovsky

[redhagiography]

А. Н. Самохвалов. Военизированный комсомол. 1932-1933

[redhagiography]

Venetsianov, "Harvest Time, Summer" 1827 "The public speaks French, the people speak Russian. The public is all of 150 years old. You cannot count the age of the people. The public is transient; the people eternal." -Aksakov

[redhagiography]

In 1928, the Left Front of the Arts avant-gardists teamed up with the Young Communist League for a shock campaign aimed at eliminating badly designed interiors, knick-knacks and other middle class aesthetic objects under the slogan "down with domestic trash". Tasteless figurines, postcards and mass produced paintings were confiscated and burned in the streets, flower wallpaper ripped from the walls in the "war against ugly philistine aesthetics." We socialists take aesthetics very seriously ;)

[redhagiography]

Fyodorov’s original idea that “All Lives Matter” was a much better one.

[redhagiography]

So long as participation in knowledge does not embrace everyone, pure science will remain indifferent to struggle and depredation, while applied science will contribute to destruction either directly by the invention of weapons, or indirectly by endowing things like consumer goods with a seductive appearance, thus fostering friction among people. Scientists, who take no direct personal part in the struggle or in actual war and who are outside the reach of natural disasters because they are sheltered against them by the peasantry – who bear the full brunt of nature – will remain indifferent even to the depletion of natural resources and to changes in climate. Indeed, changes in climate may be pleasant to town dwellers, even when they result in crop failures.

Fyodorov, Philosophy of the Common Task

[redhagiography]

Yet from the pulpit comes a voice saying, 'Beware of this audacity which seeks to bring down rain from heaven by means of gunfire.' * But if gunfire cannot be condemned out of hand even when it brings death (for example, in the defense of the homeland), why should it be condemned when it brings life and saves people from starvation? Is it not rather the carrying out of God's will?

Fyodorov