[lbo-talk] Sipping Wine (was Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" )

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 17 16:13:46 PDT 2007


--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> [WS:] He must have been smoking some really good
> stuff. All revolutions were made by intellectuals:
> Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Fidel, Pol Pot... The proles
> were just tools in their hands.
>
> Wojtek
>

Lots of uprisings in Russia were led by peasants and Cossacks (a subset of peasant). Does Emil Pugachev count as an intellectual? I doubt he knew how to read. (He wasn't very successful though.) Bogdan Khmelnitsy?

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