You might even conclude, from these numbers, that it made sense to pick a shadow chancellor committed to revolutionary transformation.

High culture, merged with social power, was thought to be the instrument of revolutionary transformation, which could change personalities, temper characters and reshape old, wearied human nature.

Consequently, postmodernists claim, such mobilizations are antagonistic to socialism, unconnected with fundamental changes in production relations, and thus incompatible with revolutionary transformation.

This revolutionary transformation could only be the outcome of the spontaneous action of the proletariat itself, its trades bodies and the autonomous communes.