Marx’s choice of the proletariat was disguised faith in philosophy.

Evidence

What was stunning in the writings of Marx and Engels, then, was not their mere recognition of class struggle but rather their sympathies in that struggle. While Kant and Hegel threw their support to the bureaucrats as that stratum which constituted what Hegel designated as the “universal class,” Marx and Engels proposed the industrial proletariat, wage laborers. But quite possibly that was less an error in judgment (as Cox supposed) than a deceit: even in their own times, notwithstanding their different historical contexts and their specific political maneuvers, it should have been obvious that Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Engels all concealed their faith in philosophy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 77

Categorization

• XREF: Robinson’s claim that Marx’s class choice was a ‘deceit’ masking a faith in theory connects to the reader’s interest in what Marxist theory gets wrong about non-European masses. — connects to: Benjamin rejected the autonomy of intellectuals, siding with the proletariat over Geist. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1514