This view of art, though simplified for the sake of humour, is pretty much the position of Mao. Despite what some people claim, Mao had a pretty sophisticated notion of art. Premised on production, he rejected the crude activist notion that art should be propagandistic and sloganeering as "dogmatic", just as he rejected "art-for-arts sake" as "idealist". See his Yenan Forum talks on Art and Literature...
This view of art, though simplified for the sake of humour, is pretty much the position of Mao. Despite what some people claim, Mao had a pretty sophisticated notion of art. Premised on production, he rejected the crude activist notion that art should be propagandistic and sloganeering as "dogmatic", just as he rejected "art-for-arts sake" as "idealist". See his Yenan Forum talks on Art and Literature...
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