Bedřich Václavek (10 January 1897 – 5 March 1943) was a Czech literary theorist, critic, journalist and Marxist aesthetician.

[3] A member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1925, Bedřich Václavek was actively involved in the labor movement of his region, organizing actions of solidarity between cultural figures and striking miners in 1932.

Julius Fučík brought him to work in the editorial office of the illegal newspaper of the Central Committee of the party Rudé právo.

He died on 5 March 1943 (possibly killed by lethal injection) in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 46, without giving his real name.

He represented a synthetic and dynamic view of socialist realism as a synthesis of avant-garde and proletarian art with active relationships with life.