/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

If the proletariat is the historic subject then why are proletarians useless retards while most great socialist figures were not proletarian themselves, i.e. didn’t produce surplus labor value.

<Karl Marx
>Son of a lawyer
>Journalist, philosopher, political economist

<Friedrich Engels
>Part-owner of textile mills
>Factory manager

<Vladimir Lenin
>Son of a noble-rank civil servant
>Lawyer and professional revolutionary

<Leon Trotsky
>From a relatively prosperous farming family
>Intellectual, journalist, political leader

<Rosa Luxemburg
>Middle-class background
>Academic theorist and political activist

<Antonio Gramsci
>Journalist and academic

<Mao Zedong
>Son of a wealthy peasant/landholder
>Teacher, librarian, organizer before revolution

<Ho Chi Minh
>Son of a scholar-official
>Worked abroad in service jobs but not industrial proletariat

<Eduard Bernstein
>Bank clerk turned theorist
>Middle-class background

<Karl Kautsky
>Son of artists
>Writer

<Jean Jaurès
>Middle-class background
>Academic and politician

<Olof Palme
>Upper-middle-class Swedish family
>Political leader

<Michael Harrington
>Academic and writer

<Robert Owen
>Factory owner

<Charles Fourier
>Bourgeois commercial clerk

<Henri de Saint-Simon
>Aristocrat

<Che Guevara
>Upper-middle-class Argentine background
>Medical doctor

<Fidel Castro
>Born to wealthy landowning family
>Lawyer and revolutionary leader

<Salvador Allende
>Physician
>Upper-middle-class Chilean background

<Kwame Nkrumah
>Teacher and intellectual
>Political leader

<Julius Nyerere
>Teacher and politician

<Herbert Marcuse
>Middle-class academic philosopher

<Theodor Adorno
>Philosopher and musicologist

<György Lukács
>Aristocratic Hungarian family
>Philosopher and literary critic

<Slavoj Žižek
>Middle-class academic

<Gustav Landauer
>Middle-class intellectual

<Dorothy Day
>Journalist

>Oh, well that‘s because privileged people have more free time!
Sure, but how doesn‘t that make THEM the historic subject? All the ideas seem to come from them while proletarians are rather some sort of mass to direct, either by the bourgeoisie or socialist intellectuals from privileged backgrounds.