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Surrealists have often sought to link their efforts with political ideals and activities.

In the Declaration of January 27, 1925, for example, members of the Paris-based Bureau of Surrealist Research ( including André Breton, Louis Aragon, and, Antonin Artaud, as well as some two dozen others ) declared their affinity for revolutionary politics.

While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism.

The foremost document of this tendency within Surrealism is the Manifesto for a Free Revolutionary Art, published under the names of Breton and Diego Rivera, but actually co-authored by Breton and Leon Trotsky.