Talk:Theoretician (Marxism)

Staggeringly inaccurate

"The term, "theoretician" as used by Marx, originally had a much more specific meaning, where the theoretician is tied very closely to working class, and is part of the working class clarifying its struggle and expressing its interests. In The Poverty of Philosophy (1847),[1] Marx remarks that "Just as the economists" - referring to the classical Political Economists - "are the scientific representatives of the bourgeois class, so the Socialists and Communists are the theoreticians of the proletarian class." In other words, they are partisan thinkers on the side of the working class." To read Marx's words and summarise what he said as "theoreticians are tied very closely to working class and is part of the working class clarifying its struggle and expressing its interests ... in other words, they are partisan thinkers on the side of the working class" is simply mind-bogglingly inaccurate. Quite bewilderingly so. In the above, "scientific representative" equates to "theoretician", such that the working-class analogues of the "bourgeois class" "economists" are "Socialists and Communists". This is quite literally the only possible interpretation of Marx's words. Additionally the English used to construct the quoted paragraph is abysmal, indicative of ESL comprehension and usage rather than native-level. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.47.177.151 (talk) 03:36, 8 August 2024 (UTC)