A review by owenm1116
Art and the Working Class by Alexander Bogdanov

3.0

I’ve read a few bits of socialist political theory but this has been my first foray into a philosophical application of socialism. Bogdanov in the 3 essays of this book attempts to use the methods of Marxist analysis to analyze art and specifically how artists and critiques in the new Soviet Union should address the topic of art as a proletarian expression as a dialectical advance from bourgeoise inspired art. I think that his second essay on how workers should look at art and be taught is was probably the most interesting specifically his example of the play Hamlet