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description: .The quarrels about pure art and about art with a tendency took place between the liberals and the populists. They do not become us. Materialistic dialectics are above this; from the point of view of an objective historical process art is always a social servant and historically utilitarian. It finds the necessary rhythm of words for dark and vague moods it brings thought and feeling closer or contrasts them with one another it enriches the spiritual experience of the individual and of the community it refines feeling makes it more flexible more responsive it enlarges the volume of thought in advance and not through the personal method of accumulated experience it educates the individual the social group the class and the nation. And this it does quite independently of whether it appears in a given case under the flag of a pure or of a frankly tendentious art.
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title: .The Social Roots and the Social Function of Literature
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