Theory is really important, but if you need every member of your revolution to have a PhD in dialectical materialism, you will never have a revolution. You’ve gatekeeped your revolution to the intellectual bourgeoise.
You need revolutionary leaders who can take theory, and distill it down to values that ordinary working class people can understand.
It’s extremely important to recognize the balance to walk here: to encourage solidarity between both the intellectuals, and the proletariat who cannot afford higher education.
You need revolutionary leaders who can take theory, and distill it down to values that ordinary working class people can understand.
It’s extremely important to recognize the balance to walk here: to encourage solidarity between both the intellectuals, and the proletariat who cannot afford higher education.
This is only a balance if you assume that proletarians cannot understand theory and need to be guided by “intellectuals”. Ordinary working class people all over the world have historically been able to understand a lot of theory just fine. A lot of it was actually written for ordinary working class people by ordinary working class people or intellectuals.
Theory is really important, but if you need every member of your revolution to have a PhD in dialectical materialism, you will never have a revolution. You’ve gatekeeped your revolution to the intellectual bourgeoise.
You need revolutionary leaders who can take theory, and distill it down to values that ordinary working class people can understand.
It’s extremely important to recognize the balance to walk here: to encourage solidarity between both the intellectuals, and the proletariat who cannot afford higher education.
This is only a balance if you assume that proletarians cannot understand theory and need to be guided by “intellectuals”. Ordinary working class people all over the world have historically been able to understand a lot of theory just fine. A lot of it was actually written for ordinary working class people by ordinary working class people or intellectuals.