"In essence, the Intelligentsia is, as a whole, petite bourgeois. But at the same time, it is the bearer of special functions in society--it is the organ and servitor of social knowledge and consciousness. For, in the words of Lassalle, the union of science and the fourth estate is a most natural phenomenon. A real artist must be sensitive to truth, to the beauty of heroism and of the will to freedom. The teacher, the true teacher, must first of all be with the masses in all their experiences and through all their wanderings."
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To All Who Teach (1918)
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Anatoly Lunacharsky
Anatoly Lunacharsky (23 November 1875 {11 November O.S.} – 26 December 1933) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the first Soviet Commissar of Education. Born in 1875 in Poltava to minor nobility, he embraced revolutionary ideals at an early age. Departing Russia for Switzerland in 1894, he studied under the philosopher Richard Avenarius and, upon his return to Russia in 1896, faced arrest for party building activities, leading to exile in Kaluga. He returned to Kiev around 1901 or 1902. In July 1
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