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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

It's noteworthy that it's not Chomsky's system either. It's not Derrida's, Foucault's, Zizek's, or Deleuze's system. Yet the people who have power don't mind letting in these guys, who are ostensibly radicals and critics of power, to the boys' club and they're allowed to share that power a little bit. But when you think about intellectuals who do similar work and aren't anticommunists, none of them are household names. So is the intelligentsia just a thing that exists that has a vague unspecified connection to the ruling class, or is the process of knowledge production just as important for the capitalists to coopt as any other arena of economic and social intercourse?

[-] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

It can be challenging for members of the ruling class to set themselves apart from each other socially with wealth alone so they attempt to do so in other ways such a patronage or association with intellectuals. Voltaire is a useful Archetype to understand the concept because so much is known about him.

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