2. Communism in the Ancient Times
Plato’s The Republic was the first idea of a classless
society.
Describes a state where people shared all their
property & wealth.
"The private and individual is altogether banished
from life and things which are by nature
private, such as eyes and ears and hands, have
become common, and in some way see and hear
and act in common, and all men express praise and
feel joy and sorrow on the same occasions."
3. Christian Communism
The Bible suggests that the Apostles formed a
communist society.
Jesus Christ asked His followers to share their
wealth equally with others.
Believes that concern with private property was a
distraction from religious service to God and
neighbor.
4. Modern Communism
Karl Marx along with Friedrich
Engels brought out the Communist
Manifesto.
"The history of all hitherto existing
society is the history of class
struggles".
Founded the basis for modern
Communism.
5. Communist Manifesto
Advocated irreligious model for the society for the
first time.
World’s most influential political manuscript.
Religion, the “opium for the masses”—Marx.
First Communist state, USSR formed on the basis of
Marx’s works.
6. Das Kapital
A critique of the Capitalist order.
Capitalism’s driving force is
“exploitation of labor for profit”.
“Poverty in the midst of plenty” the
consequence of Capitalist
materialism.
7. Maxim Gorky
Founder of Socialist Realism.
“Literature is less of aesthetics than
that as a tool to change the world.”
The Mother, Children of the Sun,
Through Russia are some of his
influential works.
8. Socialist Realism
The official type of art in the USSR and other
Communist countries.
To glorify the meek working class and work for
emancipation through revolution.
Sculpture depicts—Stone, the real weapon of the
worker.
9. Socialist Realism—notable works
Spread to Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland
and later China, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea.
Louis Aragon—French novelist and poet.
Pablo Neruda—won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Composed poetries in praise of Stalin and Fidel
Castro.
11. Cuba and Latin America
Nicolás Guillén and Jose Z. Tallet
from Cuba focused on literature
as a social protest.
Nicolás Guillén is the National
poet of Cuba. Motivos de son,
West Indies Ltd., Poemas de
amor are some of his
noteworthy works.
Wrote on the subject of Black
Poetry.
12. Che Guevara
Marxist revolutionary, physician, author and
diplomat.
Back on the road: A Journey through Latin America.
The book based on his famous Motorcycle Diaries.
"Our revolution is endangering all American
possessions in Latin America. We are telling these
countries to make their own revolution."
13. Other countries
People’s Republic of China, Laos, Vietnam and
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Literature on the lines of socialist realism.
Vientiane Times, Pyongyang Times.
British writer Anthony Daniels’ Utopias Elsewhere.
An account of Marxist states’ day-to-day life.
14. Mao’s Little Red Book
One of the most printed books during the Cultural
Revolution in China.
Comprises 427 quotations, forming the basis of
Maoism.
Famous quote—“Political power grows out of the
barrel of a gun.”
15. Communist literature in India
Before Independence, Communist parties were
banned and their literature confiscated.
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Kerala’s first Communist
Chief Minister established the Kerala Literary
Society.
Harkishan Singh Surjeet published Desh Sewak, a
Punjabi newspaper.
16. Contemporary Indian Literature
Arundhati Roy’s Booker Winning novel, The God of
Small Things.
Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Laugh.
Both examines India’s deep-rooted caste barriers
and exploitation of the underclass.
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