Intellectual
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An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems.
The front page of L'Aurore (13 January 1898) featured Émile Zola's open letter J'Accuse…! asking the French President Félix Faure to resolve the Dreyfus affair.
The Congregational theologian Edwards Amasa Park proposed segregating the intellectuals from the public sphere of society in the United States.
The economist Milton Friedman identified the intelligentsia and the business class as interfering with capitalism.
Communism
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Communism is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and excha
Thomas More, whose Utopia portrayed a society based on common ownership of property
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution
Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953