Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process

Evidence

This means working to produce elites of intellectuals of a new type which arise directly out of the masses, but remain in contact with them to become, as it were, the whalebone in the corset. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224; Genuine political knowledge requires sentimental connection between intellectuals and the people; Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty (+2 more)

Related

• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.86)
• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.85)
• Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.83)
• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. (similarity 0.83)
• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.82)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order (similarity 0.82)
• Peasant and intellectual initiatives advance each other reciprocally (similarity 0.82)
• Intellectual work now faces a constant downward pull toward relaxed standards (similarity 0.81)
• Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.81)
• Counter-hegemonic elites require an internal hierarchy to develop (similarity 0.81)
• Immanentist philosophies fail by remaining confined to elite circles (similarity 0.81)
• Mass ideology differs from the elite philosophical cornerstones that must be engaged. (similarity 0.81)
• A rising class can dominate economically while old elites retain politico-intellectual supremacy. (similarity 0.79)
• A ruling class lacking organic intellectuals cannot sustain hegemony (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224
• Genuine political knowledge requires sentimental connection between intellectuals and the people #expands (0.82)
• Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty #qualifies (0.78)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order #expands (0.75)
• Philosophical inconsistency can generate richer intellectual movements than rigid logical consistency. #expands (0.74) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2085