“We can say without exaggeration that never has civilisation been menaced so seriously as today. We are by no means thinking only of the world war that draws near. Even in times of ‘peace’ the position of art and science has become completely intolerable.

“In the contemporary world we must recognise the ever more widespread destruction of those conditions under which intellectual creation is possible. From this follows of necessity an increasingly manifest degradation not only of the work of art  but also of the specifically artistic personality.

“In the present period of the death agony of capitalism, democratic as well as fascist, the artist sees himself threatened with the loss of the right to live and continue working.  He sees all avenues of communication choked with the debris of capitalist collapse.

“Our aims:

“The independence of art—for the revolution.

“The revolution—for the complete liberation of art!”