Doug Henwood writes:
>t. byfield wrote:
>>>human creativity flowered in the USSR?
>>'flowered'?
>Bloomed, positively bloomed! I'm getting misty-eyed with nostalgia
>for the Brezhnev years in fact. How can you be so hard-hearted, Ted?
Well at least the Soviet man in the street had a taste for and appreciation of serious art and literature. Compared to the West, where any such tendencies are crushed beneath the trash peddled by the market. The market is a more effective enforcer of aesthetic homogeneity and banality than any overtly authoritarian censor, when you think about it.
Cheers, Dave