V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v41;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

1. In the Soviet Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic, the entire organisation of education, both in the sphere of political education generally and in the sphere of art specifically, must be imbued with the spirit of the class struggle of the proletariat for the successful achievement of the aims of its dictatorship, i.e., for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, for the abolition of classes, for the elimination of all exploitation of man by man.

2. Therefore, the proletariat, both through its vanguard, the Communist Party, and through the entire mass of all kinds of proletarian organisations in general, must take the most active and leading part in the whole work of public education.

3. The entire experience of modern history, and especially the more than half-century revolutionary struggle of the proletariat of all countries since the appearance of the *Communist Manifesto*, has proved beyond doubt that only the world outlook of Marxism is the correct expression of the interests, viewpoint and culture of the revolutionary proletariat.

4. Marxism has won its world-historical significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because Marxism did not at all discard the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, but, on the contrary, assimilated and reworked everything that was valuable in the more than two thousand years of development of human thought and culture. Only further work on this basis and in this same direction, inspired by the practical experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat as its final struggle against all exploitation, can be recognised as the development of a genuinely proletarian culture.

5. Steadfastly adhering to this principled standpoint, the All-Russia Congress of Proletkult most resolutely rejects, as theoretically incorrect and practically harmful, all attempts to invent a special culture of their own, to shut themselves up in their separate organisations, to demarcate the spheres of work of the People’s Commissariat for Education and Proletkult, or to establish “autonomy” for Proletkult within the institutions of the People’s Commissariat for Education, etc. On the contrary, the Congress imposes upon all organisations of Proletkult the absolute duty to regard themselves entirely as auxiliary bodies of the network of institutions of the People’s Commissariat for Education, and to carry out their tasks, as part of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, under the general guidance of the Soviet government (specifically the People’s Commissariat for Education) and the Russian Communist Party.

Comrade Lunacharsky says that his words were distorted. That makes the resolution all the more necessary.