Intellectuals have no standing to preach abstention to those risking punishment.

Evidence

If they use violence, they do not start a new chain of violence but try to break an established one. Since they will be punished, they know the risk, and when they are willing to take it, no third person, and least of all the educator and intellectual, has the right to preach them abstention. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Marcuse’s break with the Frankfurt School over advising student radicals and the Third World as the strongest force for radical change. — connects to: Intellectuals who remain detached from popular passions become a caste, not leaders — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1497
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Intellectuals who remain detached from popular passions become a caste, not leaders — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1497

Broader Connections

• Intellectuals who remain detached from popular passions become a caste, not leaders #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1497