Cross-national organizations function as international intellectuals mediating between extremes

Evidence

A religion, freemasonry, Rotary, Jews, etc., can be subsumed into the social category of “intellectuals”, whose function, on an international scale, is that of mediating the extremes, of “socialising” the technical discoveries which provide the impetus for all activities of leadership, of devising compromises between, and ways out of, extreme solutions. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 764

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends the ‘intellectual’ category beyond individual thinkers to whole organizational networks that mediate and socialize ideas across borders — a key move for reading Islamophobia’s transnational discourse networks.
• XREF: Directly feedable into claims about pan-Islamic networks or Islamist movements being read as international intellectuals mediating between political extremes. — connects to: The American right’s rise depended on an international intellectual community — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1443