Art and the Working Class

Appearing for the first time in English, Art and the Working Class is the work of Alexander Bogdanov, a revolutionary polymath and co-founder, with Vladimir Lenin, of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Bogdanov was a strong proponent of the arts, co-founding the Proletarian Culture (Proletkult) organization to provide political and artistic education to workers. In this book, Bogdanov discusses the origins of art, its class characteristics, and how it might be created within a revolutionary socialist context.

Taylor R. Genovese is a multimodal anthropologist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York, whose work mainly focuses on nostalgia, melancholy, Marxism, theories of value, and environmental ethics.