Counter-hegemonic elites require an internal hierarchy to develop
Evidence
But these elites cannot be formed or developed without a hierarchy of authority and intellectual competence growing up within them. The culmination of this process can be a great individual philosopher. But he must be capable of re-living concretely the demands of the massive ideological community and of understanding that this cannot have the flexibility of movement proper to an individual brain, and must succeed in giving formal elaboration to the collective doctrine in the most relevant fashion, and the one most suited to the modes of thought of a collective thinker. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1225
Related
- Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process (similarity 0.81)
- Immanentist philosophies fail by remaining confined to elite circles (similarity 0.80)
- A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order (similarity 0.79)
- Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.79)
- A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party (similarity 0.78)