Thus, the writer is a parasite of the governing “elite.” But , functionally, he moves in opposition.

To the interests of those who keep him alive. Such is the original conflict which defines his condition.

Sometimes the conflict is obvious. We still talk about the courtiers who made the success of the Marriage of Figaro through it sounded the death-knell of the regime. Other times, it is masked, because to name is to show, and to show is to change. And as this actvity of the contestation, which  is harmful to the established interests, ventures, in its very modest way, to concur in a change of regime, as, on the other hand, the oppressed classes have neither the leisure nor the taste for reading, the objective aspect of the conflict may express itself as an antagonism between the conservative forces, or the virtual public.

Jean-Paul Sartre