Gramsci’s concept of ‘Dirigente’ links cultural hegemony to workers controlling the work process

Evidence

This extremely condensed and elliptical sentence contains a number of key Gramscian ideas: on the possibility of proletarian cultural hegemony through domination of the work process, on the distinction between organic intellectuals of the working class and traditional intellectuals from outside, on the unity of theory and practice as a basic Marxist postulate, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1810

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines what the condensed ‘Dirigente’ sentence encapsulates, useful for carrying Gramsci’s intellectual-worker distinction forward.
• XREF: The organic vs traditional intellectuals distinction carries forward into Islamophobia readings on who produces dominant categories.

Related

• Hegemony can be achieved through dominance over the work process. (similarity 0.89)
• Organic working-class intellectuals link production roles to political direction (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s dirigere terms resist single English translation equivalents (similarity 0.84)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.82)
• Hegemony sometimes fuses leadership with domination in Gramsci’s usage (similarity 0.81)
• Intellectual strata emerge from concrete historical class processes, not abstract democracy (similarity 0.80)
• Intellectuals act as functionaries of the superstructures mediating society and production (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s hegemony opposes domination and also corporate economic phase (similarity 0.80)
• The intellectual category is a class myth; intellectuals divide into traditional and organic (similarity 0.79)
• Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class. (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites (similarity 0.78)
• Redefining intellectuals by social function clashes with caste preconceptions (similarity 0.78)
• Gramsci proposes virtues that sustain a party’s hegemonic culture against older ones (similarity 0.78)
• A ruling class needs its own intellectuals to exercise hegemony alongside coercion (similarity 0.78)