Re:Stalin's Poetry
by coldtea on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:26PM
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Could just as well be a vision for the "new man/woman" of socialism, which "he'll plow the fields, then write a poem" (e.g. not just be a mere worker cog, but a worker + creative intellectual, a whole personality).
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Reminds me of a 1960s movie (can’t remember the title) where Peter Sellers plays an enthusiastic British communist who envisions what life must be like in the Soviet Union:
“In the day, working the corn fields. In the evening, ballet!”