Some of todays self-described rationalists remind me of Gramsci and Lukacs.
In the 20's their response to the new Russian empire was to invert the Marxist pyramid ( Gramsci ) so as to rationalize the domination of the vast majority by a small minority. His " organic intellectual " being a proto-Foucaultian specialist commissar type. Beria in a word.
Lukacs leaned on the Neo-Platonic, Hegelian basis of Marxist-communism to rationalize these new ' Philosopher Kings "in the Soviet Union. Stalinism wasn't a thing by then - but Russian Marxists had begun calling each other " Red Fascists " by the early 1920's.
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