I read “Who we are: Manifesto of the constructivist group”. Basically, this document was the first one where the ideas of constructivism were briefly formed (a deeper explanation of the constructivism theory was given two years later in a book by Alexei Gan called “Constructivism”). In his work, Gan proposes a complete break with the art of the past, which had bygone historical eras (primitive culture, handcraft, and capitalism) to come to a culture of labor and intelligence – the era of high technology. 

This idea mirrors with rows of the manifesto: ”previously—Engineers relaxed with art now—Artists relax with technology”. 

In general, constructivists positioned themselves as dreamers, artists, and engineers of the future. They were a beginning of a new era, it is they who created elevators, aeroradiostations, boots, a catalog. They are everyone – and yet, they are no one. I think, by these words they meant that every person can join a constructivist community. Constructivists are kind of scattered among the people. Constructivists thought that people before they were creating some junk–poetry, paintings, novels, or imagined themselves as geniuses while creating elevators or radio posters. However, Constructivists wanted to be concentrated on new elements, routs, things, they should experiment. So, I think, their focus was on functionality, rationality rather than beauty and esthetics.