Word: intelligentsiae
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...DEBASEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA...
...intelligentsia! The term is one that Russians most love to argue over. Yet it is used in widely different ways, and its very vagueness tends greatly to diminish the value of their conclusions. The writers of Vekhi defined the intelligentsia not in terms of the level or nature of their education but according to their ideology. They were a sort of new, religionless, humanist order...
...beginning of the '30s, even the technical intelligentsia had been reduced to total submission. It was also well-schooled in treachery. It learned to vote obediently for whatever penalties were demanded. When one brother was annihilated, another brother would dutifully step into his shoes. By this time, there was no command so amoral that the Russian intelligentsia would not have obsequiously rushed to execute...
...what of the Moscow intelligentsia today? They are aware of the shabbiness, the flabbiness of the party lie. Among themselves they ridicule it. And then cynically, in the same breath, in angry protests and articles, ringingly and rhetorically repeat the very same lie, reinforcing it by their pseudo eloquence and style! Where did [George] Orwell discover his doublethink, what was his model if not the Soviet intelligentsia of the '30s and '40s? And since that time, this doublethink has been worked to perfection and become a perennial, vitally important device...
...should like to make two points concerning the ongoing controversy between certain African-American faculty members and administrators. First, if the level of debate between Professors Kilson and Guinier is a reflection of the African-American intelligentsia's grasp and articulation of the African-American situation, it is little wonder that street-and-prison-educated people have consistently filled the ranks of the African-American leadership since the death of W.E.B. DuBois...