Abstract
Perhaps the singular contribution of the intellectual tradition of the left, as it has developed since the 19th century, has been to bring working-class people fully into history, not simply as victims, but as actors. The left has understood that working and lower-class people are an historical force, and could become a greater historical force. And the left has understood that the distinctive form in which that force expresses itself is the mass movement. In theory, the left has also understood that working and lower-class movements are not forged merely by willing or thinking or arguing them into existence. Proletarian movements, Marx said, are formed by a dialectical process reflecting the institutional logic of capitalist arrangements. The proletariat is a creature not of communist intellectuals, but of capital and the conditions of capitalist production:
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