Lenin contested the Social Democratic division of labour between workers and intellectuals
Evidence
Social Democracy, following Kautsky, has tended to see the relationship between workers and intellectuals in the Socialist movement in formal and mechanistic terms, with the intellectuals-refugees from the bourgeois class-providing theory and ideology (and often leadership) for a mass base of non-intellectuals, i.e. workers. This division of labour within the movement was vigorously contested by Lenin, who declares, in What is to be Done , that in the revolutionary party “all distinctions as between workers and intellectuals . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 247