Culture

[RedFlag32]

Is the cultural struggle really that important when it comes to the struggle for working class emancipation or is it only applicable to nationalist struggles?

[dangeresque]

it depends on who you ask of course and some would disagree with me but I'd say a cultural struggle should be waged, yeah.

[RedFlag32]

dangeresque said:

it depends on who you ask of course and some would disagree with me but I'd say a cultural struggle should be waged, yeah.

Ok,comrade you think it should be waged,but why? Im not being confrontational,just curious of your opinion.

[dangeresque]

redflag32 said:

dangeresque said:

it depends on who you ask of course and some would disagree with me but I'd say a cultural struggle should be waged, yeah.

Ok,comrade you think it should be waged,but why? Im not being confrontational,just curious of your opinion.

no prob.

I think that part of the working class building more solidarity and unity, we have to provide for all the needs of the working class. Proletarianising art and democratising it (to use one example) is important imo. My opinion is that we need to break down the barries between life and art.

socialism is also about creating more well rounded people as Ta Power and Che said. part of that is cultural expression.

I also think that we have to fight a cultural struggle in the way that Gramsci advocated - that is the dominant culture is used to control the working class and we have to fight that.

it's something I have some experience with, painting murals and doing art shows that involved average people and that sort of thing. a lot of it was very successful but much of it was also frustrating, butted heads with the local bureaurcracy and wanna be bosses lol.

[RedFlag32]

I agree 100% with that post mate,i see a big importance in making art more relevent to the working class,there are various cultural activities that have been stolen by the ruling elite or middle class. i think its important,as with nationalism to not seem narrow minded or chauvanistic in regards your own culture,culture expression is good but it must also be internationalist i think,we should appreciate and learn international cultures also.

[quirk]

I am presently reading Dispatches: Report from the People's War in Nepal by Li Onesto rwor.org/s/dispatch-e.htm. Chapters 9 and 10 are excellent for explaining some of the ways that the Maoists replaced bourgeois culture with revolutionary culture during using cultural squads and other methods during the peoples war.

[dangeresque]

quirk said:

I am presently reading Dispatches: Report from the People's War in Nepal by Li Onesto rwor.org/s/dispatch-e.htm. Chapters 9 and 10 are excellent for explaining some of the ways that the Maoists replaced bourgeois culture with revolutionary culture during using cultural squads and other methods during the peoples war.

nice work