E-grāmata: Proletcult: Proletarian Culture

Aim, tendency, purpose, this is the leading feature of proletarian culture. Not education for education's sake but revolutionary educa tion, i.e., education for revolutionary ends. The origins Of this class-conscious and partisan edu cation are but new illustrations of the working of the forces which, in Marxist theory, are sum marised under the name of the materialist con ception of history. Developing industrial technique brings about a development of proletarian con sciousness. This gives rise to a proletarian cul ture, to Proletcult. And the first aim of Proletcult (in its prerevolutionary phase) is to Simplify, to concentrate, to discard everything which does not contribute to the growth of a fighting culture. Not general culture. Professedly unbiased, but a fighting culture, admittedly tendentious, is the avowed aim Of the revolutionary proletariat. Does this horrify the champions Of unbiased educa tion Nay, but we are ready, we are eager, to Offer a general apologia for tendency in science! We echo Bergson and say' We do not aim generally at knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but in order to take sides, to draw profit — in short, to satisfy an interest. (introduction to M eta physics, p.