Undoubtedly, it may seem peculiar that the class that in history has been given the task of bringing about universal redemption is unable to fulfill this mission unless directed by a culture coming from outside and, moreover, from intellectuals belonging to the very class it was supposed to overthrow. In truth, it seems to me that in the history of Marxism an exhaustive answer was never given to the problem of the “exceptions,” of why some bourgeois are able to evade the false consciousness that enslaves them because of their class.
