A number of former Marxist intellectuals have made efforts to get rid of assumed or actual ideological limitations in order to modernise their views. According to the US critique of Post-Marxists the outcome of these efforts is often contradictious, murky and leads nowhere.

Intellectuals view themselves as the vanguard of modernisation, while their actual behaviour bears a number of feudalistic marks. Since an essential ingredient of the existence of intelligentsia is to develop the society in an intellectual sense, this layer cannot reach any form of "class power" under conditions of capitalism.

On French author Viviane Forrester's book L'horreur Economique ( The Economic Horror) and on Erzsebet Szalai': Az elitek metamorfózisa. In: Az elitek átváltozása. (Metamorphose of elites in Transition of elites) Új mandátum, Budapest, 1998.

The leading political journalist is an example of the technocrats created by the late Kadar regime. His articles are misleading and full of factual errors, though it is hard to decide wether it is a moral problem or that of expertise.

The emergence of macroeconomics created the ground for governments. The function of such advisors, however, is much more complex than simply increasing the level of expertise in public policies.