Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized." in the context of "Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1971), p. 2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.