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DESCRIPTION:"Democratic Intellectuals, Idealist Notions, and the Need for Materialism" 
 - further discussion of Bob Avakian's talk "Birds Cannot give Birth to 
 Crocodiles, But Humanity CAN Soar Beyond the Horizon"\n\nSo this brings us 
 back, once again, to the democratic intellectual and the shopkeeper (our 
 old acquaintances to whom, in an important way, we were introduced by 
 Marx). The ideas of "absolute equality" and ultrademocracy, of which 
 certain democratic intellectuals are so fond, correspond to the objective 
 social position of both the democratic intellectual and the shopkeeper, 
 even with their "heaven and earth" differences, as Marx characterized them. 
 The desire of the democratic intellectuals (or at least some among them) to 
 have no "hierarchies," no inequalities of authority and power, and 
 especially no institutionalized ones, corresponds to the outlook of the 
 "shopkeepers" (or, more broadly, small property owners and proprietors), 
 enmeshed in capitalist commodity production and exchange, who want that 
 commodity production and exchange to be on an (ideally) equal basis without 
 any force having a monopoly or built-in advantage (or at least no force 
 which is other than, and in competition with, them!); who want (at least so 
 long as they are not in the advantageous position) no barriers to the "pure 
 operation" of the dynamics of commodity production and exchange—when in 
 reality these very dynamics lead, and can only lead, precisely to 
 conditions of inequality, polarization, and in fact monopoly by a few. 
 (Read entire section here)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/27/18670432.php
SUMMARY:"Democratic Intellectuals, Idealist Notions, and the Need for Materialism"
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue). Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/27/18670432.php
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