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# Eugene V. Debs Institute

Harmonizing revolutionary tactics with revolutionary principles

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- [The Revolutionary Intelligentsia](https://debs.institute/papers/the-revolutionary-intelligentsia/) - Recently, Marxists and other leftists such as Adolph Reed, Vivek Chibber, Catherine Liu and others have argued that the Left is faltering because it consists largely of professional-managerial class intellectuals, rather than being composed by the working class, whose class interest is more tied to neoliberal identity politics than socialist politics. Thus, according to these Marxists, there is a growing divide between the Left and the working class because the Left is dominated by PMC intellectuals whose class interest is at odds with that of the working class. I argue that while there is a divide of some sort between the Left and the working class, the divide can’t be attributed to the Left being dominated by PMC intellectuals because the very concept of PMC is dubious from the standpoint of Marxist theory. Rather than utilizing the concept of the PMC, which was developed in the 1970s by Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, to explain the divide between the Left and the working class, I argue that it is a recurring problem since the beginning of socialist politics. Lenin attributed this problem to opportunism and overall a political and theoretical failure to be committed to revolutionary theory. I turn to the works of Lenin and Gramsci to explain the role of revolutionary intellectuals and their relationship with the working class. I argue that currently we’re in a war of position in which revolutionary intellectuals must learn to adapt and update revolutionary theory to win consent from the proletarian masses before we’re able to have a revolution.

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