Capitalism generates intellectuals who are hostile to the system that produces them

Evidence

In the pop u lar war time tract Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter had famously complained about a tendency for capitalist economies to generate intellectuals who were hostile to the social system that produced them. In previous eras, Schumpeter wrote, intellectuals served at the plea sure of a ruling class that was quick to punish them for heretical ideas. Capitalism provided them with the printing press, the radio, an increasingly leisured and literate public, and a system of cultural and legal restraints that protected expressions of dissent. As a result, he concluded, “unlike any other type of society, capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.” — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 272

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the logic of the MPS seeing ideas/intellectuals as the decisive battlefield, relevant to Gramscian hegemony debates and the broader narrative of how the neoliberal project consciously cultivated a counter-ideology. — connects to: Milton Friedman blamed big businessmen and intellectuals for threatening free markets — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 488; Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically; Self-loathing intellectuals project their hatred onto a generalized other group — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 449 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Schumpeter’s concept of capitalism inherently producing hostile intellectuals is a precise, named intellectual framework worth keeping precisely worded.

Broader Connections

• Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically #expands (0.82)
• Self-loathing intellectuals project their hatred onto a generalized other group #complicates (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 449