From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.