intelligentsia

IPA: ɪntɛɫʌdʒˈɛntsiʌ

(politics) The intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine.

Examples of "intelligentsia" in Sentences

I find the choice of words interesting - 'intelligentsia' is from the Russian I believe.
The idea that "the worldview of the intelligentsia is necessarily in tension with a religious worldview, is plainly wrong."
The word intelligentsia was coined to describe the class of revolutionary thinkers who are at the center of Part II, Shipwreck.
The key motive for self-replicating propaganda amongst the Western intelligentsia is status-seeking — what in this context is labelled moral vanity ….
The word intelligentsia derives from the Latin word intelligentia, meaning a group of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture.
GINGRICH: No. The intellectuals around me would -- if you wanted to use the term intelligentsia -- I mean, there's a self-identified, elite intellectual group in America who see themselves as the guardians of this alternative to traditional American civilization, and these are folks who write what I think is largely gibberish and explain deconstructionism and all sorts of ideas that I, frankly, don't pay much attention to, but that are somehow mystically going to be better than American civilization: multiculturalism, the counterculture, etc.