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the Qur'an (2:164), God describes the believer's consciousness:
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the
night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's bene-
fit, and the water which God sends down from the sky—by
which He brings the earth to life when it was dead and scatters
about in it creatures of every kind—and the varying direction of
the winds, and the clouds subservient between heaven and earth,
there are Signs for people who use their intellect.
For this reason, those who believe in God have a wide horizon.
They always think freely, and are endlessly creative in various fields of
art and aesthetics.
Unable to grasp this truth, Marx and his followers tried to cram
human consciousness in the extremely narrow, fabricated mold of
"class-consciousness." They forced everyone they could influence to
think and live in these imaginary terms. In every country where
Marxism took root, just as it murdered tens of millions with no remorse,
so it froze human expression in art, aesthetics, and other expressions of
the human spirit.

The Lifelessness of "Communist Art"

With the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, Russia established
the world's first Marxist regime. First with Lenin, then under Stalin's
steel fist, Communist ideology reshaped the whole country. Its influence
can be seen in the most important elements of culture such as art, aes-
thetics and architecture.
Immediately after the revolution, the idea of "proletarian art" came
to the fore. In a magazine called Iskusstvo Kommuny ("Commune Art"),
Communist artists announced their intention to produce works of art to
serve proletarian culture. They expressed similar ideas in the organiza-
tion called Proletkult ("Proletarian Culture").
They began to discuss the meaning of " "proletarian art." From the
beginning of the 1920s, well-known Russian artists like Vladimir
Yevgrafovich Tatlin and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko defended
the idea that an artist must be a technician who gives practical solutions