Intellectuals and Revolution
What is the role of the intellectual during a revolution? That is the question that Mariátegui asks in this section’s essays regarding popular thinkers of the time and their relation to the revolutionary movement. By reflecting on the class character of the works of different authors of the time, and those authors’ participation in or against revolution (and the willingness of revolution to claim them), Mariátegui sketches the picture of a revolutionary intellectual, who consciously subjugates individuality to the group, accepts revolutionary discipline, and infuses their work with proletarian ideology in order to make the proletarian ideology — to nod at Gramsci’s idea of hegemony — common sense.
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