/lit/ - Literature

The thing about communism is that under it everything is subjected to the interests of the Party.

If the Party wants to destroy art, art will be destroyed. If the Party wants good war being done for the purposes of propaganda, it will be done.

The same is true for sciences. The Party wants to send the men into space? They will mobilize resources and knowledge to make it possible. The Party thinks modern genetics is detrimental to it's interests? Where's Trofim Lysenko when we needs it?

Of course, for intellectuals and bureaucrats (or wannabe intellectuals and bureaucrats), which is the kind of people who usually post on /lit/, this is wonderful. They are basically given absolute control over society. This explains the infatuation of the western intelligentsia with marxism and what they're going to shameful lenghts to defend it's legacy. It gives them power