Machajskism, Makhaevism, or Anti-Intelligentsia Anarchism (AIA), the estranged offspring of 
Mutualism and 
Marxism, argues that the class interests of intellectuals, including Marxist social democrats, are opposed to that of manual workers, since the unproductive labour of intellectuals depended upon preserving a hereditary monopoly on education at workers' expense. Rather than put their hopes in political revolution, revolution would consist of a violent revolt of the unemployed worker-peasant.
Machajskism thus attempted a theoretical synthesis of 
Anarchist political critique and Marxist political economy and historical materialism, by applying the Marxist critique of class-dominated ideology to Marxism itself. Machajskism theorised a "
state capitalist" moment of social development, approximating the seizure of power by intellectuals of the state apparatus, and the oppression of the working class by intellectuals acting to further capitalism in its dying days.
History
Personality and Behaviour
What you think you better than me? With your high school diploma and your collage degree.
- Draw a ball,
- Draw a line in a light shade of black diagonally through the ball,
- Fill the space below with the same color and the space above with a dull red,
- Draw a mechanical wrench on the middle inversing on both the colors,
- Add in the eyes and you're done!
Relationships
Friends
Frenemies
Anarcho-Syndicalism - Why do you like cringe intellectuals like Noam Cringesky?
Marxism -
Marxism–Leninism -
Trotskyism -
Stalinism -
Kakistocracy - We should be against the intelligentsia, but we shouldn't be downright stupid.
Pol Potism - The intelligentsia sucks, but aren't you too authoritarian?
Anarcho-Primitivism - Settle down a little
Primal Primitivism - Settle down a lot
Enemies
Fascism- You talk about giving the worker control but its all run by the state!
Capitalism - The enemy of the worker! Also somewhat ran by the intelligentsia, so it's worse!
Neoliberalism- The rule of corporate elites and the intelligence community against the worker
Technocracy - God damn intelligentsia ruling everything with their Masters degrees and blah blah blah
Further Information
Literature
Machajskism writings predominantly in Russian, Polish and French rather English, though commentary on his ideas exists in English.
- Scientific Socialism (1899)
- The Evolution of Social Democracy (1899)
- The Intellectual Worker (1905)
- An Unfinished Essay in the Nature of a Critique of Socialism
- Jan Waclaw Machajski: A radical critic of the Russian intelligensia and socialism by Marshall S. Shatz
- What is “Makhaevism”? by Paul Avrich
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