A political party can absorb intellectuals by replicating the state’s services
Evidence
A party like that of the Moderates offered the mass of the intellectuals all the satisfactions for their general needs which can be offered by a government (by a governing party) through the State services. After 1848-49, the Piedmontese State served perfectly as far as this function of Italian governing party was concerned; it welcomed the exiled intellectuals, and provided a model of what a future unified State would do. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 547
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Feeds directly into Gramsci’s core notion of hegemony over intellectuals — which later Islamophobia work (Said’s ‘Orientalism’) extends to the intellectual function of colonial knowledge production.
- DEFINE: Illustrates early in the notebooks what ‘hegemony over the intellectuals’ concretely means: winning allegiance by serving their material and professional needs.
Related
- A party can wield hegemony by satisfying intellectuals’ needs like a state. (similarity 0.92)
- Italy’s cosmopolitan intellectuals both caused and reflected its political fragmentation. (similarity 0.82)
- A ruling class needs its own intellectuals to exercise hegemony alongside coercion (similarity 0.80)
- Political parties are mechanisms for producing organic intellectuals (similarity 0.80)
- Moderates won intellectuals by offering a dignified national philosophy (similarity 0.79)
- Bureaucratic expansion creates masses of intellectuals justified by politics rather than production (similarity 0.79)
- Religion can bind intellectuals and masses only when it originates from the people (similarity 0.78)
- A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses (similarity 0.78)