Feudal clerics were intellectuals organically bound to the landed aristocracy

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Catholic church maintained ideological unity by keeping intellectuals and masses doctrinally joined; Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271

Related

• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. (similarity 0.88)
• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.85)
• The Catholic church maintained ideological unity by keeping intellectuals and masses doctrinally joined (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.82)
• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.81)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.81)
• A ruling class lacking organic intellectuals cannot sustain hegemony (similarity 0.80)
• Intellectuals are class-bound, not an autonomous social category (similarity 0.80)
• Traditional intellectuals trace their origins to slavery and freedmen in the Roman Empire. (similarity 0.79)
• A rising class can dominate economically while old elites retain politico-intellectual supremacy. (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites (similarity 0.79)
• A ruling class needs its own intellectuals to exercise hegemony alongside coercion (similarity 0.79)
• Peasant and intellectual initiatives advance each other reciprocally (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271