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Criticism, being an essential feature of intellectual activity, enables cultural communication within a community. The quality of criticism, that is, the criteria it applies, is a yardstick for a certain community’s cultural maturity. More primitive conditions generate primitive symbolical structures of criticism.
Liberal democracy and market economy open numerous opportunities for criticism. Largely uncultivated in Soviet times, political criticism is taking the lead and pushing aside the critical thought on theatre, arts, and music.
Simultaneously culture and art criticism is literally in a rut. ... Such a role of criticism is determined by the duplicity of values typical of a post-Soviet country where liberal democratic ideals coexist with the relics of socialist mentality and the bureaucratic state patronage of culture.
Approximate Word count = 463
Approximate Pages = 1.9
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