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try by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country,
j) Creating "Commune-Architecture" for agricultural, industrial, educational communes as the whole society turns into a single office and a single factory, and a single field, with equality of labour and pay in the initial phase of communism.
To begin with, this may happen with a strong centralized government directing these activities and guiding them.
However when class distinctions disappear in course of development spread over many years and all production is concentrated in the vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. In place of the old bourgeois society, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. In such a situation, architectural aesthetics, having achieved its spiritual nobility, will once again concentrate on building magnificent forms for the celebration of this stage and to create an appropriate setting for the New Man and his enriched life. The battle for architectural aesthetics will take on new dimensions.
DEEPAK M KAMBUJ
{This paper was presented at the seminar of the Indian School of Social Sciences on Marxism and Aesthetics at Kasauli, 1979).
1 Marx and Engels, "Feucrbach, Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks'*, The German Ideology i Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1976, p 67. 3 Ibid.p6Q. 3 Ibid, p 69.
1 Engels, "The Housing Question." i) Marx-Engels, "Manifest.) of the Communist Party", Selected Work's. Emphasis
added. 8 Ibid. 7 Ibid.