我们的文艺究竟是为什么人的?这是每个文艺工作者首先面临的问题,也是一个根本的带方向性原则性的问题。马克思主义经典作家对此都有过非常明确的论述。1979年,邓小平同志在全国第四次文代会的祝辞中又坚定重申:“我们要继续坚持毛泽东同志提出的文艺为最广大的人民群众,首先为工农兵服务的方向”(《邓小平论文艺》,第6—7页)。可见,这个问题本来是在理论上早已解决了的问题。然而由于几年来资产阶级自由化思潮在文艺界 What exactly is our literature and art? This is the first question every literary and art worker faces, and it is also a fundamental issue of directional principle. The classic Marxist writers have made very clear statements about it. In 1979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping firmly reiterated in his speech to the Fourth National Congress of the Chinese People’s Congress: “We must continue to adhere to the direction of Comrade Mao Zedong’s literary work as the broadest masses of the people and the first service to workers, peasants and soldiers” (“Deng Xiaoping’s Theory of Literature and Art” , Pp. 6-7). Obviously, this problem was originally a problem already solved theoretically. However, due to the bourgeois liberalization trend in literary and art circles over the past few years