Bor'ba protiv II Internacional'nogo social-fašizma [1931] - [D018]

Concise description of the directive:

The first issue of Left comes out: “Obozreniye radikalnogo i eksperimentalnogo iskusstva” (Bulletin of Radical and Experimental Art), Spring 1931. Left’s statement:
The capitalist system in all countries of the world is in chaos and must give way to the collective state of the proletariat.
We must break away from proletarian psychology to build a new classless society.
Yet the international situation today is such that renouncing the capitalist system is not enough to feel part of the international movement of revolutionary literature. We must FIGHT EVERY DAY TO OBTAIN CONCRETE REVOLUTIONARY OBJECTIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE.
The Kharkov Congress therefore drew up the following programme:

1) Fight against the preparation of new imperialist wars and especially prepare for the defence of the USSR from imperialist military interventions;
2) Struggle against fascism;
3) Struggle against social-fascism and the practice of the Second International, the main social base of imperialist capitalism.
We must fight against the pacifist deception of the masses (without DOWNPLAYING THE THREAT OF WAR).

The struggle for artistic excellence is among the main goals of proletarian and revolutionary writers. But they locate the basis and premise of the artistic quality of revolutionary art in the coherence, decisiveness and depth of the proletarian revolutionary class content, in the correctness of revolutionary thoughts, in the loyalty of the artist to the work of the proletariat and its revolution, in his daily participation in the heroic struggle of his own class.
Those who go against this principle deny the autonomy of proletarian art, turning it into a “beggar” who is content with the crumbs that fall from the table of bourgeois art. RAPP is fighting against this trend.
The international crisis and the raging class struggle raise a new wave of poputchiki. True poputnichestvo reflects the radicalisation of the petty bourgeoisie and the part of the intelligentsia ruined by the crisis, the true destruction of all illusions about the possibility of resolving the contradictions within capitalism.
False poputnichestvo stifles the growth of a new proletarian consciousness.
The same bourgeois critics are interested in passing off any work by any worker, even those with social-fascist or fascist ideas, as proletarian literature.

True proletarian literature is that which considers the world from the point of view of Marx and Lenin and participates directly in the struggle for the socialist transformation of society.
It is NOT enough to have proletarian origins or proletarian work history to be considered a proletarian writer.