The New Class: Does it Exist?: Skeptical Thoughts From Another Direction

A new idea has appeared amid the debris of what was once a powerful theory: the Marxist concept of class has been revived and applied, at last, to that elusive stratum, the intellectuals. From standpoints as diverse as left-
Hegelianism, East European dissidence, the American New Left, and contemporary neoconservatism, the old themes of the “treason of the clerks,” the “managerial revolution,” and the “new class” have reemerged in a new form. The thre...