The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
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WORLD!
BY Joseph Freeman

for an alleged terary inquision"
libel the personal integrity Of Joshua
particularly incensed because
published 1880 the height the Literary In
QUESTION"
rhat book exclaim this apparently
officially
political rabd that loyal
Of art possessed
mention the question form above
'' The bold face is the mathematical
To my knowledge
ISOLATION writer's known Fapp exceeded its functions
of Soviet
dissolved by the Communist Party
admission of political
nqution recently sent out
Revolutionary Writers He
5alc cites this alleged circular as saying:
| rhee was time when it
literary whispers could anything be
work"
this citation from alleged u r. W.
circular says nothing thing about political a0@0h n' phrase wa"
U. W. circular it actually
exists should like to know who wrote It, ana what period OF soviet
literary history describing.
Above mind
talent form For
of certain RPP cque was far from
shall in few days
the u r. w nahb
although Scribe Furthermore we know the difference
and rhetoric matter where that rhetoric may ap
from bulletin only
backward in
exausts the available facts about
the Soviet literary of 1s3o-31
shall consider of those facts later Here will only say that
form did in the
Soviet press during the height of RAPps influence
discussion of Soviet literature "the exact mathe-
NAUTICAL CENTER of the alleged literary nquisio for another column
about Voices
October The
that worth discussing both the charges and the facts only
the light they shed certain literary questions
brief history of Voices of October
That this would have to reate the period
these readers who have excellent historic memory
and people who have grown up in the past hVe or six years
would appear incredible.
books hundreds of articles describe
visited the U. s. We
films and read Soviet novels in trans
I
the crisis capitalism and the
operated against the u s. g. R. in this country
cut in ignorance
particularly regard to arts and letters
about poll
q. the Communist
liberal publications which appeared English But for those
did not read Russian it extremely difficult to find out
that happening in Soviet art and literature
~ @ understand
and learn what
eoud play in the revolutionary movement Of capitalist countries before
contemporaries literary
mds classes had learned from the Imagsts London the Fuusts
Milan Expresaons Berlin the Dadas Paris We
who identified with the struggles the working class
revolutionary
lessons especially important for in the United States
fringe the revolutionary movement
political symphes petit
split between politics poetry embodied
certain of the leaders the literary radicals Some
professional anti Communists and
we may thought today
not merely Them but ourselves to remember the
myself included them debt Of gratitude
cages Of the berasor they defended With great brance the of
the october Revolution the policies of its leaders They
At the
SANDER
arty in the most INSCRIPTIONS
clarifying the relation between literature revolution
~
Floyd Dell to remained sympathetic the
write published
title Literature the Machine Later asked Alexander camon
Red Army veteran and former director in the Soviet theatre but
editor the write articles
ibeator describing and literature These believe,
articles
they did problems None
the reconabe
and politics. between art revolution inability
extremely secaan attitude toward art both Communist
leaders writer's artists
At the beginning of rigid distinctions
that its adherents
themselves the world
possible rigdy
ment then ingrown influence
Such unhealthy sectaranm regard
questions
unaffected by it, far could gather
When arrived in Moscow the
schools representing
literary traditions various
attitude
and much more understanding than the had left behind