9k:RD/LogicOfTheArts (Q618 #1)

Prompt

Does Kodansha's policy violate "the logic of the arts"?
Today I found a video by Chibi Reviews complaining that the manga publisher Kodansha had adopted part of a particular set of United Nations equality goals: "gender equality, inclusivity, and climate action is part of Kodansha's messaging". This particular creator does not have a good track record on social issues; he fell for the slightest suggestion from who knows what news channel that imperialists are fully allowed to designate whatever warlike actions they find scary as natural crimes and so Israel is completely in the right to clear out Palestine because of Palestine containing "terrorists". But, that said, I think the issue this channel brought up about publishers and UN equality goals is genuinely interesting by itself because of all the complexities it brings up when I imagine it happening in a workers' state instead of right now.
Say hypothetically that we lived in a world almost exactly like this one, including the lack of a Soviet Union today and all the turmoil in the post-Soviet states after 1991, but that at some point after 1991 worldwide revolution started and the United States, China, and Japan became workers' republics and were part of Trotskyism. The UN is not necessarily relevant within this scenario. But, workers' organizations in Japan put together some kind of program applying to the overall country that looks approximately like the UN equality goals and mentions gender equality, inclusivity, and climate action. Kodansha exists and adopts this nationwide or international program, just like in the news article. Japan's workers would have agreed to this program, but the program could conceivably cause real problems for the industry.
At times, Trotskyists have maintained that the arts as an industry progress by their own logic. When the Soviet Union put forth an initiative to create proletarian culture, the purpose was to fulfill a perceived need and set a basic example for later authors, but Trotsky dismissed it, as far as I know because he could not promote literature being the creation of the Soviet bureaucracy and because authors of representational art would produce accurate representational art in time if workers simply controlled society long enough for everyone to experience that state of things as normal.
In my understanding what it means to say "the arts have their own logic" is that industries have a particular purpose toward society and they achieve their purpose as long as people are good at them. Whatever art does, proletarian revolution only aims to remove from that the incentives to distort art toward glorifying or biasing itself toward the bourgeoisie (and other archaic classes in the event they still exist); whatever art was before, nearly all of it will remain unless it was affected by those incentives.
Today, fans of Japanese anime and manga like to point out that these industries are characterized by experimental stories and low censorship or regulation — occasionally anime and manga produce surprisingly deep, "literary" kinds of stories compared with United States works influenced by popular anime or manga, and these "literary" stories are said to come out of authors operating without constraint, according to their own skill and vision, and overall, deeply within the logic of the arts and what makes good art as opposed to within the logic of a particular market or the logic of a group of capitalists. Thus, there is an argument going around today within manga, animated series, story-driven video games, and other forms of art that any attempt to make artists fit into what a publisher wants or an audience wants is bad, as opposed to simply telling artists to "fit into" what a skilled artist would recognize as good art. If a publisher so much as promotes particular demographic identities being represented in media more, there could be unintended consequences of it ending up with a lot of shallow and uninteresting works which happen to feature an identity but fail to reach the higher "literary" tier of producing good art regardless of level of social prejudices and social knowledge. This doesn't inherently get rid of any other works (as much as some people want to act like it does just because a foreign translation might be edited slightly), it mostly only adds new works that are noise and makes it more difficult to discover older works that were good.
But today, anime and manga are also characterized by coming from a particular layer of people who are highly skilled and highly trained and can basically choose to sell a product themselves or to be employed as a show director creating projects within the territory of a company. These people are not average working-class people, but a distinct layer above ordinary people who will always enjoy an inherently privileged position in that they alone will have adequate knowledge of what is an "inherently" good product and what is an invalid objection while the people who are unsatisfied with their products might never fully know the difference between a valid objection and an invalid objection. So, it's trivial for these people to see that someone is calling them out for accidental expressions of their own misogyny but dismiss those people just because they happen not to be any good at writing a story and don't know how to appreciate the good parts of the work.
Within the scenario of Japan being a workers' state, is it helpful or destructive for a publisher to have a policy of requiring particular equality goals? On one hand, the purpose of a workers' state is to put the people of each industry in control of society so they can pursue the actual goals of their industry, and manga authors have insight into the craft of their industry, regardless of what class they really are. On the other hand, the workers of other industries would have agreed to this policy, and the purpose of a workers' state is not to make people feel like only the most elite rungs of each industry have any say in that industry. What does it mean for an industry to operate "under its own logic" and when is that in conflict with having a functioning workers' state?

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