#prolekult

[yngwrthr]

Anatoly Lunacharsky, People’s Commissar of Enlightenment, Education, and Culture, founder of the Prolekult group, along with Vladimir Mayakovsky, genius of the Soviet avant-garde, Moscow 1918. (Albeit, I can’t help but wonder why would Lunacharsky describe the great poet as a “traitor”.)

[jittery-heart]

another good analysis from Prolekult on yt on why the us is at war with so many countries rn

[looking-with-solidarity]

Year, by Yahya Alhamara

VIA PROLEKULT: Year is a poem by Yahya Alhamara, written only at night in Gaza, under the sound of bombs. We are honoured to adapt Yahya's work to video. You can follow him on his Instagram, where you can also find the original text of the poem:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DBByGgvNosS/

Yahya is presently displaced to Khan Younis and is fundraising to fund his studies. You can support him here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-th... This is part of a broader fundraising effort for Yahya and Yousef Abdellatif, who is now displaced in Nuseirat. You can support Yousef here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-and-s... In addition to this video poem, a musical compliation "Will I Survive", has been put together to mark 400 days of genocide in Gaza and fundraise for Yahya and Yousef. 

Please take a look and support: https://whenisurvive.bandcamp.com/alb...

[alanshemper]

“Coerced by the state in its cultural war on communism, fertilized by postmodern theory and its rejection of Marxism, and grown from the ashes of working-class defeat, Postmodernism is the ideological, cultural outlook of the imperial counter-revolution. It's fundamental features are: Staunch anti-communism. A rejection of the existence of imperialism. The analysis of consumerism serving as a substitute for the analysis of capitalism. An embrace of subjectivism and aestheticism. And finally, a malleable culture of perpetual flow dominated by the medium of video.”

—Prolekult, “WTF is Postmodernism?”

[yngwrthr]

“Culture as Organization in Early Soviet Thought: Bogdanov, Eisenstein, and the Prolekult”, ed. Pia Tikka (et al.), Helsinki: Aalto University, 2016.