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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (35939)	7/10/2003 10:43:21 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Good question... IMO, it's not a question of which is more important. Each of us has his or her role. The intellectuals as well as the leaders of corporations have moral obligations to society. These are individual obligations, and moral abdication by corporate leaders does not rationalize abdication by the intellectuals. Benda was speaking more of Europe, anyway, where the intellectual had/has much more influence on political culture than in the US. The Summer of '68 protests in Paris were led in part by JP Sartre and Michel Foucault, while in the US the protesters had popular leaders who were not intellectuals per se. Also, Benda wrote the book in the 1920s, before the mass disasters took place, and so his worries turned out to be prescient.