Machajsky and the New Class

Discussion about the role of intellectuals, or the rise of the New Class, invariably centers on the ideas of Jan Wadaw Machajsky, whose writings at the turn of the century had a deep impact on the Russian revolutionary movement Machajsky sought to provide a class analysis of the socialist movement in which the intelligentsia turned out to be its principal beneficiary. Not surprisingly, his work has been attacked in the USSR, where Communist writers credit the intelligentsia with playing a role in bringing socialist consciousness to the proletariat, and where the intelligentsia, considered transformed by the events of the 1930s, is regarded as an indispensable ally of the proletariat in socialist construction

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