"A brutal takedown of post-'68 French intellectuals and an analysis of how revolutionary thought gets appropriated, diluted, and assimilated by the very society it opposes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book offers a new analysis of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution. Under the Chinese Communist Party, the intellectual was never simply an outspoken scholar, a browbeaten artist, a supportive official, or any kind of person facing an increasingly powerful political regime. The intellectual was first and foremost a widening classification of people based on Marxist thought…