The function of the intellectual has always been confined, in the main,
to embellishing the bored existence of the bourgeoisie, to consoling
the rich in the trivial troubles of their life. The intelligentsia
was the nurse of the capitalist class. It was kept busy embroidering
white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the
bourgeoisie -- that old and filthy fabric, besmeared so thickly with the
blood of the toiling masses.
-- Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
to embellishing the bored existence of the bourgeoisie, to consoling
the rich in the trivial troubles of their life. The intelligentsia
was the nurse of the capitalist class. It was kept busy embroidering
white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the
bourgeoisie -- that old and filthy fabric, besmeared so thickly with the
blood of the toiling masses.
-- Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
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