Under communism, could artists make a living, and who decided if their work was “good” enough?
Answer Thanks for good question, Chris. 1. First of all, I’d like to make a very important correction/clarification. Communism as it was described by Marx and Engels has never existed anywhere. I think it was a huge mistake to call the former USSR, China, and other former so-called SOCIALIST countries as living under communism. To put it closer to the truth in economical sense the USSR was a country with a state capitalism operated and owned by a omnipotent and pervasive group called themselves “Communist Party”, a dictatorship which used communist ideology to gain and to maintain its total control of everything and everybody in that vast land… Certainly, there were different occupations and fields which required appropriate education. So, by choosing certain education one could choose certain kind of job for many years. 2. During Soviet times existed so-called “Socialist Realism”, meaning embellishment of the existed way of living, ideology, etc. It was the only one approach accepta
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