Plato and art censorship (fwd)

[Adrian J. Wanner]

For what it's worth, here are the opening and closing statements on Plato
from "Kratkii filosofskii slovar'" (4th ed., Moscow, 1954):

PLATON--drevnegrecheskii filosof-idealist, zleishii vrag materializma,
nauki, protivnik afinskoi demokratii, otstaivavshii v svoikh politicheskikh
i filosofskikh vzgliadakh interesy reaktsionnoi afinskoi aristokratii.
[...]  Uchenie Platona stalo istochnikom mnogikh reaktsionnykh,
antinauchnykh, misticheskikh kontseptsii.  Na platonovskoe uchenie v
nastoiashchee vremia opiraiutsia ideologi imperializma v bor'be protiv
nauki i revoliutsionnogo dvizheniia mass.

Cheers,
Adrian Wanner

P.S. My apologies to the transliteration haters!