You do have a good point there about it appealing to academics who are by definition experts on something.
I will say there is something amazing about an ideology that claims to be the dictatorship of the proletariat but always seems to put the power in the hands of a decidedly-non proletarian expert class. And Marxism always seems to re…
You do have a good point there about it appealing to academics who are by definition experts on something.
I will say there is something amazing about an ideology that claims to be the dictatorship of the proletariat but always seems to put the power in the hands of a decidedly-non proletarian expert class. And Marxism always seems to result in an expert class that was decidedly incompetent. I always come back to the Soviets elevating Lysenko, executing geneticists and refusing to drop the Lysenkoism after they suffered from repeated famines. I really would love to read good-quality social science research on that aspect of Marxism.
You do have a good point there about it appealing to academics who are by definition experts on something.
I will say there is something amazing about an ideology that claims to be the dictatorship of the proletariat but always seems to put the power in the hands of a decidedly-non proletarian expert class. And Marxism always seems to result in an expert class that was decidedly incompetent. I always come back to the Soviets elevating Lysenko, executing geneticists and refusing to drop the Lysenkoism after they suffered from repeated famines. I really would love to read good-quality social science research on that aspect of Marxism.