The Intellectual - how to spot one and other details

[Acolyte Of Death]

Note: I use 'he' not because I wish to exclude the female, but because the term 'he' has been worn down through the ages to a neuter term, and it is simpler to use he, rather than s/he, he or she/him or her, etc.

Now comrades, it is often important, when pursuing the goals Our Marxist Revolution, to not forget a piece of the puzzle while in mobilising and organising the proletarian classes. This piece is the intellectual class. Now we are all intellectuals here - why else would we be posting lengthy, detailed analyses upon an internet discussion forum? Nevertheless, the collegial, intellectual person is something which we must never forget. An intellectual is, by nature, intelligent, witty, and cunning. By this we are confronted by an interesting problem, for the intellectual class is at once our greatest ally and our greatest enemy. Though it may be simple to persuade an uneducated proletarian or an ignorant and stupid petty-bourgeois, the intellectual poses a far more difficult task. An intellectual, if raised from childhood in an atmosphere of capitalism and capitalist money-'ethics', shall have at his disposal, a great deal of intelligence and intellectual resources with which to assail us. However, if an intellectual can be turned from capitalism, he shall become a great and superlatively valuable asset to Our Cause. Nevertheless it is important to recognise exactly what an intellectual creature is in the modern sense, what it represents, what dangers it imposes and what benefits could it impart to Our Marxist Revolution.

One: Recognising an Intellectual

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Now we are all intellectuals here - why else would we be posting lengthy, detailed analyses upon an internet discussion forum?

Is anyone who thinks an "intellectual"?

An intellectual is, by nature, intelligent, witty, and cunning.

Indeed?

Though it may be simple to persuade an uneducated proletarian or an ignorant and stupid petty-bourgeois, the intellectual poses a far more difficult task.

Uneducated? Ignorant? Stupid? What is all this?

Nevertheless it is important to recognise exactly what an intellectual creature is in the modern sense, what it represents, what dangers it imposes and what benefits could it impart to Our Marxist Revolution.

The biggest "danger" comes from everybody...the baggage of pro-capitalist ideas that is part of our common cultural heritage and that is daily reinforced in thousands of ways.

One of those pro-capitalist ideas is that there are special people who "think" and then there's all the "dummies" who are "easy to persuade".

That's a very dangerous idea because it leads to an obvious conclusion: the "special people" who "think" should rule all the dummies, "for their own good."

I don't think this perspective would get us very far; the "dummies" are not as "dumb" as they used to be.

Fortunately.

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[Acolyte Of Death]

Now now now, I am not proposing anything. The proletarians are uneducated simply because the capitalist system does not allow them to have good educations. A poor person who, by the action of the capitalist system, cannot afford a good education, is by definition, uneducated. Being a wage-slave to the capitalist system, the poor will not have the leisure time to, say, read up and study a great many subjects and thus become self-educated. A stupid and ignorant petty-bourgeois is a middle class yuppy who is too dumb and too indoctrinated into the system to look far past his own nose.

In a modern capitalist society such as the USA, most people are so blinded by the lasscitudes of media propaganda and relentless consumerist advertising, that they cannot lift their eyes to see past it.

The intellectual, or petty-bourgeois thinker (by this meaning the scientists, writers, mathematicians, philosophers, social thinkers, librarians, readers, etc.), is able by the merit of a flexible mind and an education, to see past these things, well before the majority of the indoctrinated masses do. Now this can be an asset or a weakness - the intellectual mind may flex towards capitalist theory and thus become an enemy to the Revolution, or it may discover the morality of Marxism and leftist thought and become an ally.

I am not proposing anything - not that the intellectuals should rule and establish some sort of technocratic aristocracy - merely stating the facts of existence. There are the intellectuals. Nor am I concluding anything.

This is the fact of existence which I see before myself, living in the United States, and with capitalism spreading like wildfire to the rest of the world, I can only see that the great number of people in the world are being subjected to this Capitalist Yoke.

If, however, the actors of the Revolution manage to motivate the people and educate them, it is only obvious that the dumbfounded masses - the intelligent proletariat, finally freed from the tyranny of capitalism, and the dumbfounded middle-class, their webs of indoctrination cast aside - shall burst with new found freedom and vitality.

The biggest "danger" comes from everybody...the baggage of pro-capitalist ideas that is part of our common cultural heritage and that is daily reinforced in thousands of ways.

I never mentioned just what the biggest danger would be, merely just that the capitalist intellectual poses a threat.