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I want to start with the not-so-stunning paradox that the most beautiful tradition is innovation. It is in the very essence of Marxism as a doctrine, it is the most permanent and most rejuvenating tradition of our society and of our art. The history of humanity and of human thought, the history of art have always been the history of innovators and never the history of epigones, of frozen traditionalists. The first are movement, the urge towards the unknown future, the second are stagnation, attachment to the proven and comfortably furnished present. The first are flights, the second - crawling. The first beat their chests and make revolutions - in science, art, society and open the way for all of humanity or for their people; the second keep their peace, their goods and welcome or carry out the return. They are the knights of inertia. In their fear of the new, they are ready to banish any innovation and theoretically justify its uselessness. That is why we say that communists are the greatest innovators, the most convinced opponents of stagnation, routine, mold, rust. Because let us not forget that in addition to pseudo-innovation, which discredits true innovation, there is also pseudo-tradition, which is already a buried tradition. To break recklessly with the established tradition and to adhere blindly to it - is the same thing. The second is no less harmful than the first. To write henriads and petriads in the 18th century is indeed pseudo-tradition, but to write an epic about Krali Marko in the middle of the 20th century is simply a curiosity. No one is able to restore that artistic consciousness that created the folk epic and the needs that made it necessary.