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”.
“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.