Note 1004 — Chapter III · : MARXISM

Manifesto. It is impossible to do away with the intellectuals altogether, but they may be reduced to the rank of mere wage-earners. “The Marxians always regarded revolution as the special privilege of the producers, by whom, of course, they understood the manual workers, who, accustomed as they are to nothing but the factory régime, would force the intellectuals also to supply some of the more ordinary wants of life.” (Sorel, Décomposition du Marxisme, p. 51.)