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South-North Cultural and Media Studies
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The White Hands

Academic social scientists and forms of popular knowledge production

Pages 1-19 | Published online: 29 Aug 2007
 

Abstract

The Russian-Polish radical Jan Makhaisky was exiled to Siberia in the 1890s. Reading Capital, he concluded that the greatest future threat to the proletariat would come from the new class of educated, unpropertied intellectuals. He called them the class of “White Hands”.

(Quoted by Adam Westoby in ‘Conceptions of Communist States’ ed D Held et al States and Societies, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1983, p234)

“Study is the patrimony of no one and the place of study where you carry out your work is the patrimony of no one — it belongs to all the people … and it must be extended to the people or the people will seize it”1.

Ché Guevara

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