Steal Like artist Communist

Young Russian Communist artist and writer. The author of many articles on VNB (UTS – A universe of true stories) and memes about bears who make vodka in the Gulag.

Gives lectures on creativity at Pixel, Gulag, and RED-ED events.

Oleg became famous for a post about the development of proletarian creativity on the Internet, which brought millions of proletarians around the world to his blog. This post has been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Japanese, and Chinese.

Nature for the artist

All artists are asked the question:

– Where do you get your ideas?

The revolutionary artist responds like this:

– I steal them from the rich and give them to the poor

How does an artist view the world?

He decides whether to steal this thing, whether it is a landscape outside the window or an element of another artist's painting, whether it is an excerpt from a book or an event from a dream.

That's it. I don't need more than that.

Looking at the world in this way, the socialist artist removes bourgeois morality. He doesn't think what's good and what's bad. There is only that which is worthy to be shown to the working people in their drawings, or, on the contrary, is unworthy because of the commonplace, obvious or false.

Today, artists can use everything. But not everyone can be useful to him. And if, in the opinion of the Communist party, something is not worth taking today, then tomorrow, in a month or a year it may be quite suitable.

Is there nothing original?

Bourgeois writers, such as Jonathan Lethem, say that if people call something "original", then in nine cases out of ten they simply did not calculate the source of borrowing This is partly true, because people tend to learn and learn about the world. And you – dear artist, actress, writer and other "heads of the nation" are probably not the first in their work.

After all, every person once fell in love, because so much has been written about love. There have been so many wars that there are already thousands of books about them, if not millions. There were also billions of beautiful sunsets and sunrises on earth, and people saw them as soon as they appeared. And as soon as we got to the level where we could draw pictures, we started drawing them. That's why there are hundreds of thousands of sunset pictures.

Every bourgeois artist understands that if you write about something radically new, it may not sell. Therefore, in the creative industry, artists rely on what was created earlier. Almost always they don't have anything original.

These enemies of the working people are right. However, they assume that if you do something new-the result of production will be difficult to sell. We proceed from the benefits for the working people. If we do something new, it may not be of high quality or even harmful, and this is unacceptable.

Moreover, the classics of scientific communism claim that there is nothing in the world that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. They note that even the appearance of radically new things has prerequisites. Thus, by finding out these prerequisites, we can improve the quality of new things. Thus bringing world communism closer.

Capitalists refer to the Bible:

«…there is nothing new under the sun»

(Ecclesiastes 1:9).

As we can see, the bourgeois capitalists are once again slipping into naked idealism, they represent the world as if it cannot be changed, and it is a given. That is, the norm is the order of things in which all the world's factories and plants, small and large enterprises, cafes and nuclear power plants belong to a group of people who have not managed production themselves for a long time, because all management belongs to managers, Directors, foremen and engineers. At the same time, these same capitalists do nothing but try to preserve this order of things and compete with each other in wealth. Thus, they only cause crises and wars for the world. And if they are replaced with elected workers ' councils headed by the Supreme Soviet, the economy will not collapse.

Socialist art shows all the working people of the planet that the world can be changed. Many aspiring artists may go into Trotskyism from lack of understanding, believing that the world can be changed from today to tomorrow. This is not the case and building communism we need to learn from capitalism.

After all, capitalism is the past. Barbaric and ugly, dirty and bloody. But it is also a time of struggle, of the formation of socialism as the first stage of communism.

Some may find this idea insufficiently revolutionary, but it gives me hope. After all, by learning from the lessons of the past, we can move more confidently into the future.

The religious obscurantist and Trotskyist Andre Gide observed, " everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one heard it, you can say anything again."

This is another type of Trotskyism. He makes the workers and peasants of the whole world look like stupid sheep that walk on the leash of smart people. Such as Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Churchill. But it's not just about political personalities that he's talking about. And also about art. For him, people are material, living wallets that can eat even shit if it is advertised.

Undoubtedly, this is partly true under capitalism. However, if other artists only painted the world, then it is up to us to change it

Forgetting the disease of childish leftism, you stop trying to create something out of nothing and start learning even from the enemy. As the great Lenin said

«The capitalists themselves will sell us the rope on which we will hang them».

It's the same with art. They will teach us how to draw with a brush that we will stick in their eyes, they will teach us how to sing revolutionary songs, make proletarian movies.

Bourgeois genealogy of ideas

Capitalists reduce everything to allusions to genetics. You have a mother and a father. And you carry their traits, but the sum – that is, you yourself-is greater than the totality of these traits. You are a Remix of your mom, your dad and all your ancestors.

You have your own family tree – your ideas also have one. They don't choose their parents, but they choose their teachers, their friends, the music they listen to, the books they read, and the movies they watch.

This is partly true, but the analogy to genetics is a false analogy. The world of art can really be seen as the ongoing development of some ideas to other ideas. And externally, if you draw it as a table, it really looks like a family tree. So let's draw it.

Idea tree

It turns out pretty good, but let's remember that this is due to allusions to the family tree, so we wanted to do the best, but we got this:

The tree of debauchery and sodomy

Goblin (Dmitry Yuryevich) said: "Kids, don't eat stupid shit." It's the same here. Learn from the bourgeoisie, but don't repeat its mistakes.

Choose your teachers

«Education is a way of development for Russia and for the whole world»

– Roman Barkov, the Russian military, General, the villain.

An artist is a person who shows life and conveys morality through works. His task is to be a good collector of interesting things from life. Artists only take what is truly valuable.

Friedrich Engels wrote that despite the fact that Hegel is cheap and a liar, but he was his teacher. At that time in history, Hegel was one of the best, if not the best, philosophers in the world. And it was he who developed dialectics to the point where it could argue with metaphysics on equal terms in a scientific form. The fact that Hegel was cheap and a liar was due to the fact that he was forced to submit to the Church and show his faith in God. This meant that his dialectic was idealistic. With a belief in miracles like God or freedom. Marx and his friends simply put Hegel's dialectic on a materialistic track.

Thus, based on the science that their enemy wrote, they developed it and turned it upside down. Born dialectical materialism quickly moved from the description of physical and evolutionary processes in the social Sciences, in the struggle of selling and buying labor. This is how communism appeared.

Your job is to find good ideas. It doesn't matter if you find them in nature, history, or other creators. And then-to show them with talent in art or even develop them, thereby becoming an example of imitation by a new teacher for future generations.

Study the idea tree

Joseph Stalin said: "Lenin is my teacher, I am only his faithful disciple." And this is correct. The bloody veteran studied the works of Lenin in the pre-revolutionary years, he read and distributed Marxist atheist Newspapers in the Church school where he studied, and then among the workers of Baku. Reading various articles, it was clear to him that the great Lenin was the most truthful and accurate of all socialists

Studying his articles, even starting to write his own, Stalin started a correspondence with Lenin. Then there was the world imperialist war, revolution, capitalist revolt, civil war, and intervention. Stalin commanded the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn and personally took part in the battles.

Stalin was friends with Lenin, considered him an outstanding political figure, economic theorist and the greatest leader of the peoples, under whose leadership the new Soviet Russia fought the whole world and emerged victorious in this war.

In the field of art, you can do everything like Stalin. See how other artists draw, how other writers write, their books. Find the best among them, find the most truthful, logical and talented among them.

And then-study him, his biography, his contribution to science and art, his participation in significant world events, be it the world war, the revolutions of the 20s, the struggle of peoples against fascism and colonialism, as well as the collapse of the USSR.

Find out all about it. Then find out all about his teachers. Climb as high as possible on the tree of ideas. Find out who he studied, which artists he liked, and why. If he is still alive-meet him, become his friend.

It is important to understand that you are also part of the idea tree. When you achieve something, they will look at you as a landmark. When you realize that you are part of a creative line, you feel less alone in creating something of your own. For example, I hung a poster in my room with Zh-12, the hero of Russia. It's like a good spirit among the Gentiles. Leaning over my Desk, I can almost feel the hero of Russia pushing me forward.

Great people who are already dead or just live very far away will not mind if you learn from them. Learn whatever you want. They left all the curricula to us in their works.

And if they do, we Communists don't recognize copyright. And if today you are fined by a copywriter, then tomorrow they will be exiled to the GULAG in a car with the inscription "Bread". Punish for nothing, as you like it.

The same armored train with virgin girls

The inscription: "Hleb" (bread) is used to transport the repressed

Learn

«Learn, learn, and learn again.»

– Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin, the Soviet leader, a Gerrnan spy, a mushroom.

You're inside, and the University is outside. Learn for knowledge and learn for reference there are two different educations. You are studying for a piece of paper and you only need to pass the subject. You learn for the sake of knowledge and you need to get it.

Under capitalism, education is paid and not everyone has the luxury of knowledge. Under socialism, the educational system is free. Therefore, you need to be curious about the world in which you live.

Delve into the science you need, so that you will be ahead, and the capitalists in the Gulag.

Google everything you can. Yes, I mean exactly "everything". Google your problems, Google your dreams. Google and ask others. As a result, you will either find the answer yourself, or better formulate your question.

Read constantly. You don't have to go to the library and have paper books. A person surrounded by the Internet will always find where to buy with a 100% discount. Download entire libraries and remember Kennedy's words that the Soviet Union won the space race sitting at a Desk and studying. The knowledge inside the book outside.

Collect books, even if you don't plan to read them right away. As Director John waters said, " nothing is more important than an unread library."

And remember that knowing where to look – you will always find.

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As a Communist, you must serve the working people. And it also requires art. And if the bourgeoisie deliberately throws dirt at the people so that people are dirty and consider it normal, then we have a different goal.

Our task is to educate people of creativity, people of conscience and work, heroic and intelligent people. The capitalists have the same goal, but not for the people, but for themselves. Within themselves, they are interested in creating the best capitalists, such as their children or small entrepreneurs.

Therefore, in the world of capitalists, art is divided into art for the education of sellers of labor, moreover cheap and skilled, and art for the education of the creators of capitalism. Our task is also to educate creators from people. Only of all people.

It is easier to draw a diagram.

This is why we need to learn at the same time from degenerate works that are popular among the people and from a narrow, really good line of works for the education of the capitalists themselves.

Our task is to take the best of their capitalist, feudal, and slave-owning formation and develop it. So it turns out that we love General Lee, but we are anti – slavery, we tell stories about brave knights, although we know that in reality they are the enemies of the people.

Our task is to find what makes popular anti-national films, pictures, and so on popular, and then use it for your own purposes. Our task is also to make our works make the best people, heroic and smart. At the same time, it is necessary to capture the hearts and minds of citizens.

Therefore, it is worth taking beauty and clarity, rigor and logic from popular works, and putting a strong creative message in them.

The question arises-how to do this. The answer is obvious. The most important thing is to study books, even go to lectures in bourgeois universities, and it does not matter – as a student, a free listener, or a listener in a video recording. You also need to take into account the Soviet experience.

It is also worth isolating all the good things from the works of capitalists, memorizing them, and trying to create something similar and better. You can even create a separate folder for "good ideas". Bourgeois reporters call such a folder "mortuary" – and I like that name. Your mortuary folder is where you keep the "dead" that you will bring back to life later, in your own works.

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Not "do what", but "How do»

If I didn't decide to "start drawing" until I figured out what I want to draw, who I am, and why I live, I would still be doing self-digging, not business. I know from my own experience that a person is known in his work, his earning a living.

You are already ready, don't ask yourself "what should I do?". There is a problem in the world – capitalism, and even when we win it, there will be all sorts of interesting stuff like limited resources, aging and death. So solve one of these problems. Your task is not to think what to solve, but to think how to solve it. That is, not "do what", but "what to do with it", that is, how to solve this problem.

Maybe you're scared to start. It happens. This is a defense mechanism developed by humans so that they do not touch any new things unnecessarily. For example, they didn't jump on rocks or touch any snakes. Well, here you need to understand that it is difficult for everyone to get used to it, only the help of your friends will help you here.

As one partisangirl said

"Оne smile from a comrade removes all fear and fatigue"

Happy summer in a labor camp Superov (SUPERLAG) in Kolyma

Let it be just a game at first

«It's the devil's toy, YesDJi!»

– Kama Bullet, candidate for master of sports

Bourgeois capitalists offer their artists to play artists until they become them. Reading this in Russian – I didn't have any questions. After all, playing like football, not playing professionally, playing poorly, having fun-this is good and normal. But our favorite enemies of the people want us to play like actors in the theater.

And it's funny.

1. pretend to be someone you are not; copy until you are successful, until people see you as you want to be; or

2. Pretend to do something until you actually do it.

They are satisfied with both interpretations – you need to perform a ritual, dress in the artist's textures (and where do they sell these?) and after the ceremony, everything will be very cool.

Enemies of the people are inspired by the book "Just Kids" by singer Patti Smith. This is the story of two friends who aspired to become artists and came to new York for this purpose. They pretended to be artists. In the strangest scene, Patti Smith and her friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, dressed up in all their Bohemian Gypsy outfits and went to Washington square Park, a popular walking spot. Their appearance attracted the attention of an elderly couple of tourists. The wife told her husband: "Let's take a picture of them. I think they are artists." "'No, come on, they're just little dibs, '" her husband said. Let's put aside these funny nonsense of capitalists. They have an even funnier nonsense where everyone can get rich just by working hard.

However, you can play as well as play airsoft, volleyball, and so on. What I want to say: "Creative work is also a kind of game." In your case, the arena for the game is your audience, friends, in the society of artists or on the Internet, they all look at your work and see the beauty. And you look at their faces with a satisfied face and feel like a master.

And here is the most important thing. Playing in humans and in all animals is a training exercise. Only in humans is this a means to lose time and can bend the back to scoliosis. The same airsoft – you did not die, but took off your nerves, and ran with armor and a Kalash. Everything is very cool.

Or all sorts of catch-up in childhood – this is a warm-up of the body, a jog. The bottom line is that you can't run away from a tiger and a bullet, but you can run away from a ball and your peers.

Most importantly-running from a bullet – the price of a mistake is death. And if you are hit by a ball-you need to go to respawn. Plus the game is cheaper.

It's the same here. You're an aspiring artist. Draw whatever you can, just whatever you want. Play. No one will judge you, and if you succeed, everyone will praise you. Play and have fun. Maybe you'll start drawing seriously. You can also play there, but not in pairs in an artist's shop or in paintings for sale, of course.

Play until you realize that it's so cool that you're ready to do it all your life.

Learn by repeating

People are born simple beings, a resource, if you will. And from this resource at the "factory", that is, kindergarten, school, army and University, they are already making citizens. Children repeat after their parents, teachers, and older children.

When we say repetition, we are talking about practice. This is not plagiarism, if it is not an attempt to pass off someone else's work as your own. You learned to write by copying the alphabet. Musicians learn by playing scales. Artists learn by copying masterpieces of painting.

Capitalists suggest putting the question like this: "we need to decide who to copy. And then what.". Well, it is immediately clear what the bourgeois capitalists will tell us next. Copy who you like, and copy what you like from him.

That's great advice, I'll just clap and then go wash my hands of it.

We understand, of course, that you pendos have a very bad education. But even in bourgeois times we have art schools for school children and art schools. In most cases, they are free. They all have textbooks on painting and so on. And comrades from the Northern pirate fleet have long been selling them on torrents at a 100% discount.

So we Communists can only advise you to study exactly what you need in specialized courses, whether they are courses on the Internet or textbooks.

And only having already frolicked to the minimum level is worth imitating someone.

And not to someone as a person, but to the direction, type, or even tradition of art.

Steal like Communist

Gary Panter's animator said: "If you were influenced by one person, everyone will say that you are a follower. But try to Rob a hundred people, and you will be called an original!". The bourgeois intelligentsia sells art, and therefore considers itself the leader of opinions. However, her role in society is a political prostitute who tries to earn money. That's why they steal successful ideas, because their idea is profit. And even if they have their own ideas, they suppress them or distort them for profit.

Our business is to convey ideas, use pictures, films and songs as bombs and shells. Therefore, if we copy the enemy's art, we do not hide it. On the contrary, we directly tell the author that some things in his work came out great, but he did not disclose them or made mistakes. Or we can do the same, only better. And let the capitalist pig explode with anger, but we do not accept copyright in the capitalist sense. That's why he won't get any money from us.