[lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats

[Alex]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Lenin and Trotsky had high cultural expectations for the 
> working class - they wanted proletarians to assimilate the best of 
> bourgeois culture. In fact, raising the cultural level of the working 
> class seemed central to their revolutionary project.

What would it mean to "raise" the cultural level of the working class?

I find John Carey's argument in _What Good Are the Arts?_ that there is no
rational sense in which high art is is superior to low/mass art rather
compelling.

-Alex

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