Mao Tse Tung Quotations from Mao Tse Tung 32. In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. III, p. 86.
Revolutionary culture is a powerful revolutionary weapon for the broad masses of the people.
It prepares the ground ideologically before the revolution comes and is an important, indeed essential, fighting front in the general revolutionary front during the revolution. III, p. 84. Only in this way can we have a literature and art that are truly for the workers, peasants and soldiers, a truly proletarian literature and art. Ibid., p. 78. Ibid., p. 70.