Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Class

Most generally, the distinguishing feature of Pragmatism is its concept of Theory as essentially implicated in Practice, functioning as instructions, directions, a recipe etc.  Thus, it constitutes more than a Method--it proposes a novel concept of the role of Thinking in all behavior. Dewey's notable insight is to discern in the traditional Theory-Practice split, with the former the superior factor, a Class distinction between idle ordering employer and employee who does all the actual work, an insight likely influenced by Marx, though Dewey's rejection of Historical Necessity substantively diverges from Marxism.  So the Pragmatist critique of Analytic Philosophy is more than an Academic tiff--the Theory-Practice split entailed in that method is, from a Deweyan perspective, a symptom of an inherently exploitative ideology, regardless of the attribution to it of value-neutrality by its practitioners.  The precise version of that criticism is Wittgenstein's exposure of the presumed privileged and sacrosanct Meta-Language of Analytic Philosophy as a mere abstraction from just another collective activity that he calls a Language-Game.  He, thus, shows, that Theory is the Practice, i. e. the Language-Game, of a certain ruling-class.