Socialists like everyone else love beautiful music and beautiful paintings but we detest the way that beauty inside capitalism is used as a piece of property to be bought and sold. 'On Nov. 12, during the second of the two big auction weeks that start in New York on Monday night, Christie's is offering one painting - a Francis Bacon triptych - that is expected to bring $85 million. Its archerival, Sotheby's, has a 1963 Warhol that it anticipates will sell for $60 million to $80 million. ' (New York Times, 31 October) Inside a socialist society wherein we are all free to enjoy the beauty of human creations we will not need some member of the capitalist class's hired wage slave employee to determine what is worthy of our admiration. Beauty will have no price. RD
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