Proletarian culture was to be developed by the workers themselves and would provide a necessary antidote to the problems affecting post-revolutionary Soviet society.
He stated that the proletariat had to find new systems of knowledge, develop new ties between the different disciplines, which would require a monistic understanding of the world.
As regards art, he stated that the new culture must be made by worker-artists, who aim to change the world, not merely to beautify it.
by essentially arguing for continued state subsidies for Proletkult which were being reduced under the New Economic Policy.
[1] He praised the organizations literary output, including the role of drama as well as the development of production art.