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intelligentsia and petite bourgueoisie usually don't own infrastructure that would stop the revolution...do you think a chief programmer in oracle owns vital infrastructure like servers and stuff? a used car salesman doesn't own factories, a lawyer usually is not the owner of the judiciary or court buildings
I think their referring to the fact that these highly skilled laborers are bribed by the loot of imperialism, and if a revolution occurred, that loot would necessarily be taken away, so how do you replace them if they refuse to work.
This is pretty much fact. Every American's purchasing power comes from the economic hegemony the U.S controls that oversees exploitation of Latin America, Africa, SE Asia, etc. As Parenti said, those nations aren't "poor"; they're rich..the people are poor.
Toronto Book Launch for "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"
I believe @spectre is building on the conversation this is a part of
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
@confidant6198 you may be looking for the term intellectual labor aristocracy