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In an open society of the 19th cent variety, the professional intelligentsia's ability to play a pol'al role is linked to its relative freedom of movement as a floating stratum which can attach itself to SC's other than the one that originally gave birth to it. From the standpoint of those committed to the existing order, such shifting from class to class is treachery & the intelligentsia is regarded with suspicion. After 1830, & in particular after 1848 the intelligentsia split into warring camps. Its plebeian ranks rallied to democracy & socialism, while its patrician sector turned conservative (albeit in the 19th cent sense of unconditional defense of property against the onslaught of the masses). By comparison with the liberal century (1830-1930), the new situation represents a shift in the balance between state & society such that the state is the dominant power. This makes possible the conversion of the intelligentsia into the directing stratum of industrial society. J. A. Fishman.