Post-Revolution Cultural Politics

[umbilical_syllables]

After the revolution there will most certainly be a period of chaos or at least disorder, while the people outline the structure of the new society.

I have a couple of questions regarding culture in the socialist society. (By culture I mean Music, Movies, Litterature, Painting, Sculpturing and so on)

How high a priority should culture be?

When, during the "re-building process", should cultural issues be dealt with?

Where do we draw the line? When is it critique when is it counter-revolutionary?

Should file-sharing be legalized?

Should film making, recording records, writing books etc be considered as a full time job? Or should that kind of activities be "restricted" to your free-time?

Well, that's a few of the questions I've been wondering about. I know that a lot of the answers will be "coloured" by how you think that the socialist society will look like...but I don't think that will be a problem.

I'm looking forward to your input

Peace out

[EscapeFromSF]

It is a very narrow view of productivity that is limited to the physical needs of humanity; such reduces humans to machines needing only food and shelter for survival. Yet if such is the case, then why do we need freedom? If it is the mind that makes a human, then intellectual endeavors are every bit as important as the physical.

Why are you worried about counter-revolution? Are you afraid your own ideas will not survive critique?

If there is no property, then why would file sharing be illegal? And under whose authority would it be illegal?

[davidbrooke]

Culture is a product of class atagonisms and how each individual relates to the means of production. The proletariat is oftenm exempt from expressing themselves, so when the class atagonisms have disappeared, a whole new widespread culture would ensue of people expressing themselves like they've never done so before.

You'd have revolutionary art which would play a historical role in how the masses reacted and responded to each movement. You've some of the France '68 paintings!
The "crititque" would be a general reflection on the historical role. There would be artists against the revolution and express this in some median. I highly doubt this would carry much wait against a united and organised proletariat.
Eventually it would die out, because it'd be considered backward and only have a purpose during the tension of a revolutionary transistion.

"a full time-job". Why should it be, when your working less hours and getting paid more. There'd be plenty of time for people to express themselves in a leisurely way, they could write or paint if need be. Some writers would want to carry full time jobs as writing, and some people would not want to bother writing but work and read hte writing of hte "full-timers". This seems compatiable to me.