A Critique of Socialist Realism A. Socialist Realism Among the Communist revolutionary activities, one which played an important role was artistic activity, whose style of creation is called socialist realism.
Art belongs to the people.
Art should be based on their feelings, thoughts, and demands, and should grow along with them. The main goal of socialist realism lies in inspiring a socialistic, revolutionary world view, or world sense. To put this another way, writing poetry and novels, painting, and so forth, should all be carried out for the purpose of exposing the crimes of capitalism and praising socialism, and works should be created to inspire readers and viewers to stand up for revolution, with a burning righteous mind. Socialist realism was formulated by Soviet artists under the guidance of Stalin in 1932, and came to be applied to all artistic fields, such as literature, drama, cinema, painting, sculpture, music, and architecture. The superstructure is created by the base precisely in order to serve it, to actively help it to take shape and consolidate itself.