Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones.

Evidence

Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function. They are formed in connection with all social groups, but especially in connection with the more important, and they undergo more extensive and complex elaboration in connection with the dominant social group. One of the most important characteristics of any group that is developing towards dominance is its struggle to assimilate and to conquer “ideologically” the traditional intellectuals, but this assimilation and conquest is made quicker and more efficacious the more the group in question succeeds in simultaneously elaborating its own organic intellectuals. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271

Categorization

• XREF: This dual mechanism—assimilate existing intellectuals while cultivating your own—resembles how colonial and nationalist projects recruit native elites while training counter-elites. — connects to: Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types; Feudal clerics were intellectuals organically bound to the landed aristocracy; Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271

Broader Connections

• Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology #expands (0.82)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order #expands (0.80)