Re: Noam on intellectuals
On Feb 11, 2007, at 6:45 PM, B. wrote:
Mikhail Bakunin: “The aristocracy of the intellect is the most hateful, scornful, insolent, and oppressive of all aristocracies that have, each in its turn, and all at once, oppressed human society. The modern universities of Europe … perform for the bourgeois class the same services the Church once rendered the aristocracy of nobles; this new sacerdotal caste [of intellectuals], a church of bourgeois learning, nows explains and legitimates the exploitation of workers.” (1869)
That doesn’t describe contemporary Europe or North America. We have
an aristocracy of money, though official ideology suggests that
you’re only as rich as you are clever.
Doug
March 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Sir, Madam,
The original idea to study is to be in sevice of the peoples. Today we know of that only through “Hippocratic Oath”, taken by students receiving M.D. degree, or by some priests.
Respectfully, Leo