A highly regarded anthology of Marxist writings on art and aesthetic appreciation, ranging from philosophy to criticism of Charles Dickens and the cinema. Contributors include V. I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Walter Benjamin, Sartre, Gyorgy Lukacs, Mao, Orwell, Jan Kott, Sergei Eisenstein, Brecht, Bukharin, Umberto Barbaro, Franz Mehring, Lucien Goldmann, Plekhanov, Ernst Fischer; others.