About the book: year / “Literary work, writes Mr. Lenin in “New Life” (N 12), cannot be an individual matter, independent of the general proletarian cause . Down with non-party writers! Down with the super-human writers! Literary work must become a wheel and a cog of one single great social-democratic mechanism.” And further: “Absolute freedom is a bourgeois or anarchist phrase. It is impossible to live in society and be free from society. The freedom of a bourgeois writer, artist, actress is only a disguised dependence on the money bag. We, socialists, expose this hypocrisy, tear down false signs not in order to obtain non-class literature and art (this will be possible only in a socialist, class-free society), but in order to oppose hypocritically free literature, but in fact associated with the bourgeoisie truly free literature openly associated with the proletariat…»