It just so happens that one is pursuing pleasure, the other alienated, but both contribute to art's carnival . I prefer to live in a market economy myself, but I cannot accept that myth. Artists tear through myths anyway, even under Stalinism . It is part of their work. How strange when ideology offers its highest praise to exactly those artists who determinedly starve to criticize the ideology.
Someone is in logical trouble.
To see what is wrong, let me first set capitalism aside. It claims that artists work best constrained by their audience alone. Art has winners and losers, it continues, like anything else. The best artists may at times be losers, but the true genius will always carry on. Take each point in turn.