The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of a New Class -- Modern Thought Translation Series. Volume 5

Author: (American) Goodner, translated by Gu Xiaohui, Cai Rong
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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 quickly engaged in a struggle with the groups originally controlling the socio-economic sphere, consisting of merchants or party leaders. This struggle spanned Western developed countries, former Soviet Union, Eastern European countries, as well as third-world countries, thereby forming a new class struggle and a new class domination system. The power of the new class has been continuously growing, as it has already achieved outstanding economic and cultural status and is expected to eventually become the ruling class of the future.