Communist sociey and the arts

[Red Robe Majere]

my the art i mean pictures, movies, vedio games, music, jewellery, etc, etc.
i have always thought about how it would be done my guess was on there spare time but i have never came to a conclusion.

[KC]

All art would be done during people's free time. Unless of course it's architecture or something like that. Of course, it would be up to society to decide when what jobs are done.

[Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor]

Arts are essential to society, and they must be valued. I hope to be an English professor, and I would not support any society that refused to allow me that career. It is from capitalist oppression of the arts that people have grown to devalue it. Artists, writers, and the like are all essential parts of society.

[Xanthus]

Originally posted by Dooga Aetrus [email protected] 17 2006, 01:43 PM
Arts are essential to society, and they must be valued. I hope to be an English professor, and I would not support any society that refused to allow me that career. It is from capitalist oppression of the arts that people have grown to devalue it. Artists, writers, and the like are all essential parts of society.
The key point is that at present, the career of an artist is only open to the elite... those who have the necessary free time to persue such a career. An English professor is something quite different, as the free universities within socialism will need teachers of all sorts.

As socialism develops, working hours for each person would be drastically redused, and therefore, everybody would have the free time to persue the arts. They would not be less-valued, but more valued.

[HoorayForTheRedBlackandGreen]

In America, every emo kid, no matter how rich or poor, writes poetry. They're the capitalist elite, I suppose.

Seriously, I don't believe in this "elite" having hold of art. There's a lot of great art, especially novels, by lower-class folk.

What is art anyway? It's not something really definable. I say "self-expression through a creative medium." It took me a few seconds to come up with, and it seems to fit. So technically angry grafitti on the factory wall is art. We all have time to unleash our creativity, some just have enough time to completely immerse themselves in it. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

What's wrong is that not everyone has the option of going down a completely artistic career path. And to do that, it doesn't take money. It takes a Will to Starve. It takes a strange adherence to the tenants of Bohemianism. Not that it has any tenants, but you know...

[Storming Heaven]

All art would be done during people's free time. Unless of course it's architecture or something like that. Of course, it would be up to society to decide when what jobs are done.

It is sometimes said that in communist society, the distinction between work and play would disappear. If this happened, wouldn't the distinction between 'work' and 'art' also dissolve? People might produce 'works of art' (:P) as a matter of routine! An exciting possibility, but would it happen?