Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals

Or so they said in 1968. Following on from the Miasnikov article below, Class Against Class has the entire text of Marshall Shatz's biography of Machajski here. It is titled Jan Waclaw Machajski: A Radical Critic of The Russian Intelligensia and Socialism. Decades before the idea of co-optation was used by the Situationists, Machajski had spotted the opportunities for parasitism that hierarchical organization offers the middle classes and intelligentsia. One of the reasons why a genuinely progressive movement has to be non-hierarchical from day one if we are to be sure it will hold no attraction to those who would usurp its power.