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1 " The truthfulness and historical exactitude of the artistic image must be linked with the task of ideological transformation, of the education of the working people in the spirit of socialism. This method in fiction and literary criticism is what we call the method of socialist realism. "
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2 " The man who is afraid of any criticism of his work is a despicable coward deserving no respect from the people. "
3 " With the appearance of Marxism as the scientific world outlook of the proletariat ends the old period in the history of philosophy, when philosophy was the occupation of isolated individuals, the possession of philosophical schools consisting of a small number of philosophers and their disciples, detached from life and the people, and alien to the people. Marxism is not such a philosophical school. On the contrary, is supersedes the old philosophy — philosophy that was the property of a small elite, the aristocracy of the intellect. It marked the beginning of a completely new period in the history of philosophy, when it became a scientific weapon in the hands of the proletarian masses in their struggle for emancipation from capitalism. "
4 " innovation is not an end in itself. The new must be better than the old, otherwise it is meaningless. "
5 " The 'celebrities' of that bourgeois literature which has sold its pen to capital are today thieves, detectives, prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters. "
6 " The decline and decay of bourgeois literature derive from the decline and decay of the capitalist system "
7 " There are, it is true, fashionable 'theories' to the effect that a pathological condition is a higher state, and that schizophrenics and paranoiacs can attain spiritual heights in their ravings unattainable by an ordinary person in a normal state. These 'theories' are not, of course, fortuitous. They are very characteristic of the period of decay and corruption of bourgeois culture. "