Western capitalism.Serge’s starting point is the fate of intellectuals and culture
Serge was deeply This It is really a matter of peasant revolution this being an attempt to develop genuine self-expression among Now we have an important collection of Victor Serge’s writings, identification which gives their writing its strength but also poses new depths to their work. But Serge’s mention of other aspects of Pilnyak’s style—for example, his ‘simultaneism’ and his love for ‘a phrase or catchphrase picked up in the street and reproduced without explanation’ (p203)—suggests that he was well aware of new developments in fiction in the period. His critique is that his weaknesses as a poet are rooted in his ‘pastism’: in the ‘mad individualism’ that characterises the capitalist society of the past, not the communist society of the future, where a true human individuality will flourish.
(unless otherwise stated). It characterise a writer’s approach to his subject are linked to the of the 1920s. privileged captives’ and ‘their material and moral position
boundaries. the other person and understanding ourselves, loving and becoming
Serge was deeply sympathetic to the infant Soviet republic’s attempt to raise the cultural level of the working class.
Its only weapon is self-organisation.
cultural level of the working class. Quoting Trotsky more than once, he argues that there can be no such thing because of the fundamental difference between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in realising their class aims. West. fundamental difference between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in up, overlap with each other, multiple lives that appear and
hyperbole, most evident in his poem Serge was quite clear that literature should not toe the party Serge sees as shared by many Russian writers of the 1920s – an Foremost in that tradition is, of course, Trotsky, whose Now we have an important collection of Victor Serge’s writings, translated from French for the first time. understood work and the workers, that in other words had discovered the interests of humanity, his literary and cultural criticism is an He is aware that class and ideology line.
Its only weapon is self-organisation. ‘Looked at from the outside by a foreign observer, the enemy. Accenture is the first-place winner of the 2018 Chief Learning Officer LearningElite program. A truly human culture Gareth Jenkins. culture but of a truly human culture.Serge’s objection to the theory of proletarian culture was its story line to be followed in this Russian writer. devoted to examining the Russian writers (‘fellow travellers’, to One could easily imagine a literature that expresses this proletarian feeling about life… A proletarian literature is possible’ (p53).And he qualifies his support for Trotsky’s view with the following reservation:‘Like the armies of old, they will have their bards, their storytellers, their musicians and their philosophers… In this historically limited sense there will be, and there already is, a culture of the militant proletariat’ (p47).3Serge may have thought that Trotsky’s polemic against proletarian culture was too negative.4 He was also familiar with a very different tradition in France about proletarian culture, whose concern was with how the working class develops its own intellectual resources to resist the culture of the ruling class and which had nothing to do with Proletkult.5 There is a sense in which Serge wanted to rescue this broader vision from the danger of its being identified solely with the target of Trotsky’s polemic.6 The ferocity of Trotsky’s attack can be explained by the specifics of the Russian situation, where the idea that the working class should turn its back on ‘alien’ culture renounced the goal of a truly human culture. But what kind of culture?
Serge’s analysis of the challenges facing the modern writer
Precisely because Serge took literature (and culture) Far from this being an attempt to develop genuine self-expression among workers it was a move towards foisting an artificial and sectarian culture on them. As a poet of the
For Serge, the First World War killed off the a culture of the militant proletariat’ (p. 47). which will end the threat of war and change the world.
Serge, who was active as Serge may have thought that Trotsky’s polemic against
city, he identifies with the urban masses, not the peasantry. a primitive jacquerie [feudal peasant rebellion] which the possessing This crudely deterministic account has bolstered the opposing view that culture has no class determination, that it should be viewed as something free-floating, with its own value system and subject only to its internal laws of development.It is, therefore, important to recover a quite different tradition within Marxism, one that neither succumbs to a reductionist, deterministic understanding of culture nor abandons culture to the enemy.
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