By intellectuals, I do not mean all people of intelligence
or of a certain level of education, but those who, in their vocation, deal with ideas as
expressed in words, shaping the word flow others receive. These wordsmiths include poets,
novelists, literary critics, newspaper and magazine journalists, and many professors. It
does not include those who primarily produce and transmit quantitatively or mathematically
formulated information (the numbersmiths) or those working in visual media, painters,
sculptors, cameramen. Unlike the wordsmiths, people in these occupations do not
disproportionately oppose capitalism. The wordsmiths are concentrated in certain
occupational sites: academia, the media, government bureaucracy.