“This article was not conceived as an abstract theoretical study. Art, like other areas of life, is now in the stage of an undoubted revolutionary crisis, the content of which is the problem of proletarian art. Both its theorists and practitioners are far from any, even approximate, unanimity. Against. One can more or less definitely outline two sharply warring groups here; I will indicate the difference between them later, but for now I will state that both groups consist of Marxists and consider their position to be the only Marxist one...”