Art and the Working Class: State Publishing House, Kyiv, 1921, 71 p.

In the work Art and the Working Class, Olexandr Bohdanov analyzes the contradiction between the individualistic forms of bourgeois art and the need to form a collective proletarian worldview. Art is seen as part of the ideological struggle, with an organizing role for the minds, imaginations, and wills of workers. Bohdanov stresses the need to create a new type of art—collectivist in form and proletarian in content, closely linked to the labor process. He criticizes symbolism, formalism, and individualism as unsuitable for socialist society and justifies a materialistic approach to art based on his general theory of «tectology». Central to this is the conclusion about the need for aesthetic education of the masses based on collective creativity.

As stated in the publication, the translation from Russian into Ukrainian was done by T. and V., whose identities could not be established.

Mariia Zhovnodiy