![]() Expensive art colleges and elitist salons ensure the working class is kept out of ‘high’ culture, while the need to make a living prevents artists from experimenting and developing their craft. ![]() The vast majority of people are prevented from producing art, forced to devote the bulk of their time toiling for a parasitic few, with barely enough time left over for rest. Meanwhile, the finest artistic accomplishments of humanity are locked up in the private vaults of the wealthy, or behind the gilded doors of expensive galleries and theatres – what Trotsky called the “concentration camps of the mind.” Under capitalism, art and culture are nothing but business, to be exploited for profit. ![]() ![]() Donate | Marxist Literature | Subscribe to the In Defence of Marxism magazine ![]()
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