The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of a New Class

Author: Irving Goffman (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The new class emerged in the 20th century, composed of humanistic intellectuals and technical intellectuals. It is a cultural bourgeoisie that controls valuable culture and privately possesses the advantage of historical and collective cultural capital. After its emergence, the new class soon engaged in a struggle with the groups originally controlling the socio-economic sphere, consisting of merchants or party leaders, across Western developed countries, former Soviet Union, Eastern European countries, and third-world countries. This led to the formation of a new class struggle and a new class domination system. The power of the new class has been continuously growing, and it has already achieved outstanding economic and cultural status, with the prospect of eventually becoming the ruling class of the future.