Marxism and Scientific ProgressDiego Rivera

This mural section (1934), part of Rivera’s cycle Man, Controller of the Universe, clusters Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Leon Trotsky above a dense crowd of workers whose red banner calls for global solidarity through the Fourth International. A huge industrial propeller and scientific instruments slice through the scene, while seated laborers confront a toppled classical statue. Rivera aligns Marxist theory, organized labor, and modern technology against inherited authority.