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swombat
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Historically, most famous revolutionaries, from Che Guevara to Ghandi or Trotsky, were well educated, often coming from solid middle-class backgrounds (e.g. Che Guevara was the son of a doctor).
tome
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Che was a doctor
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/g/u.htm
swombat
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Sure, but being a doctor himself doesn't mean he was from a middle class background. The fact that his father was a doctor, though, does.
grandalf
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So you think intellect is not correlated with revolutionary-ness?
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