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PARTISAN REVIEW
scious variations
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we include
even the best of our literature written up to
the present.
Has the latter really succeeded in advancing to partisanship,
which makes possible a dialectical, objective re-creation of the entire
process of our time? The answer is obvious: our literature is still full
of "propaganda," even in its best works.
For rarely does it succeed in
re-creating what the class-conscious section of the proletariat aims at and
is doing because of the latter's insight into the driving forces behind the
whole process, and as the representative of the great historical interests
of the working class. Only in rare instances is it able to re-create this
as a will and a deed that arise dialectically from this same total process
and are themselves indispensable factors in this process of objective reality.
The re-creation of the subjective factor
in revolutionary development
is too often replaced by a merely subjective (because uncreated) "wish"
on the author's part: "propaganda." And when the author portrays this
wish as objective and fulfilled, instead of truly (i.e dialectically) re-
creating the subjective factor wtih its desires and its behavior, the por-
trayal becomes "propagandistic." There is no reason to deny these mistahs
and defects, nor to ascribe them to "technical weaknesses" or "technical
awkwardness." The same method that discloses our mistakes and uncovers
their roots: the unliquidated heritage of the Second International,
is the
method that helps us to overcome them: materialist dialectics, Marxism-
Leninism.
Partisanship instead of "propaganda" is an important point
where we can and must effect this advance towards the utilization of
Marxism-Leninism for our creative wor](.
