> Sounds a lot like the Western intelligentsia (esp. the French ones):
> overpaid, complacent and winy hacks. Fuck intellectuals.
>
>> From: Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:40:25 +0100
>> Subject: [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran
>>
>> Shane Mage writes, caricaturing Chris Doss:
>>
>> '""the intelligentsia and educated professionals"=the most super-
>> exploited group of workers (paid the least proportion of their product)
>> under Stalinism. Their "ire" was "more directed at the system" that
>> denied them the most elementary personal and political freedoms. And
>> constantly insulted their intelligence.'
>>
>> Exploited? Oh please. The soviet intelligentsia were full of complaints,
>> but the essence of them was that they were not accorded their proper
>> place in the nomenklatura. In fact, that is all the intelligentsia was,
>> those educated for positions in the nomenklatura, who, for whatever
>> reason, did not find a position there. Never were there such a
>> mean-spirited, superior, disdainful gang of snobs as the Soviet
>> intelligentsia. They hated the workers, who they blamed for being
>> over-paid and greedy, taking their rightful due from them (which of
>> course was not true).
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