Everyone is an intellectual insofar as all thought sustains a worldview

Evidence

Thus, he insists that everyone is a philosopher or an intellectual insofar as he or she thinks, since all thought, action, and language is reflexive, contains a conscious line of moral conduct, and thus sustains a particular conception of the world (though not everyone has the specialized function of “the intellectual”). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 124

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Gramsci’s universal intellectual (everyone) from the specialized intellectual function — a load-bearing distinction for hegemony theory.
• XREF: Doctrine of the ‘organic intellectual’ gets set up here; connects to later Islamophobia readings on who produces authoritative representations.