Politicians vs. Artists

I don’t think that artists and politicians necessarily always stand at opposite poles, but it does seem to happen a lot. In Wright’s case, as in many others, the artists were attempting to create something for the revolution, which would aid the revolution and inspire others to follow it. The politicians, however, were unable to see the value of these contributions and wanted people to be giving the revolution itself not what they viewed as trivial pieces of writing. The politicians couldn’t understand why someone would want to write, and couldn’t see the value of writing thus they were alienated by Wright’s work. This led to disputes within the party as Wright slowly realized that the party he had joined because of its so-called freedom really was critical of his work and didn’t want him to do it. However, there are politicians who can understand what the artists are doing and even back up their work, they are just much rarer than those that stand opposite the artists.