Social Democracy treated intellectuals as bourgeois refugees supplying theory to workers
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. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 247
Categorization
- XREF: Grounds the classic Kautsky-vs-Lenin dispute that informs hegemony theory; relevant to how ruling ideas get naturalized. — connects to: Party intellectuals faced suspicion as petit-bourgeois Trotskyists — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1357; The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution; Lenin contested the Social Democratic division of labour between workers and intellectuals (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Party intellectuals faced suspicion as petit-bourgeois Trotskyists — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1357; The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution; Lenin contested the Social Democratic division of labour between workers and intellectuals (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Proletariat and intellectuals need each other mutually for revolution
#complicates(0.73) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 266