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One of the main charges of the protagonists of the debate raise each other is that both are part of the coterie of intellectuals associated with the two powers : one of the majority government led by Sali Berisha and the other one related to power as mayor Edi Rama , but also as a continuation of those eight years when the Socialists were in charge of the central government .I do not add anything new if I say that these two accusations contain much truth within . Even believe that there will be neither oppose both sides in the debate . With this that I do not want to go either party clientelism topic or see a charge to circulate more in the comments on this controversy on the Internet , according to which , since they are associated with governments , are not intellectuals true or reliable , a real intellectual power stays away because he corrupts , that an intellectual should be critical of the government and not a servant to him, because it is his duty as an intellectual . Personally , given the personal experiences of frustration with both arms , I feel close to this critical , but am open to the idea that there is only this model .
Intellectuals associated with a party of the left or right , to engage not only the support , but also working in state institutions representing these parties , or proposed by these parties as members , and there are important everywhere . These are sometimes even more public say if you want even more influential in the public , even those who hold more positions on certain issues . Add here that is not just intellectual beings with a brain , but also with your heart, and with emotional memory , feelings of friendship , and , also , that not only lives in the air , but he also needs to those who are called material needs , he also has to keep family .
Said all this , I want to point out , however , that the protagonists of the debate , as writers , scholars , translators , literary critics , journalists , fall into a category , as it were , more special than those who are called militants . If the latter supporting a party being put into play more enthusiasm and heart , often the material interests , intellectuals supposed to put a lot more in the service reliability of a cultivated mind , having developed critical thinking , which has more knowledge etc. . , etc. . , and that , therefore , are also thought to be more willing than militant rulers face for the sake of public interest , their name , their work , vision etc. . , or in respect of what Raymond Aron 's statement , according to which : " interest compromises can be made , but not for the vision of the world " .
And here I must say that what I find deeply disturbing in our category of intellectuals who support parties - here are three names slip beyond debate in question - is the lack of critical attitudes towards parties that support . Personally I do not recall that in twelve years in power , Edi Rama is the only public criticism that have become a generation of intellectuals as Ardian Klosi against him , either in terms of the irreversible damage it has done to the monuments of Tirana , Tirana historical , public spaces and green - as though any Klosi is an activist protecting these - whether personalization of institutions that run either for cooperation with dubious oligarchs , whether many failures as president of the Socialist Party .