Each rising class generates its own organic intellectuals from its practical activity

Evidence

It can be observed that the “organic” intellectuals which every new class creates alongside itself and elaborates in the course of its development, are for the most part “specialisations” of partial aspects of the primitive activity of the new social type which the new class has brought into prominence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 253

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘organic intellectuals’ as specializations of the new class’s own practical activity, in contrast to ‘traditional’ intellectuals.
• XREF: This distinction between organic and traditional intellectuals is a core Gramscian concept that later colonial and postcolonial theory, including Said’s Orientalism, builds on. — connects to: Every rising social group organically produces its own intellectuals to articulate its function — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1176