How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Keynes argues against elevating the proletariat over the bourgeois and intelligentsia, whom he sees as carriers of quality and human advancement despite their faults.
- In plain terms
- He rejects valuing the working class above educated and affluent groups who drive progress.
- What can you take from it?
- Progress often relies on the contributions of educated elites despite their flaws.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who drives human advancement?
- Is class elitism justified?
Another view
It overlooks systemic barriers faced by the working class.
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