Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

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: Gramsci practices an open Marxism that develops Marx beyond orthodoxy.; Politics is the central human activity for Gramsci, not a mere category; Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (+4 more)

Related

• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.94)
• Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.88)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.88)
• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.88)
• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.87)
• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. (similarity 0.87)
• The intellectual category is a class myth; intellectuals divide into traditional and organic (similarity 0.84)
• Organic working-class intellectuals link production roles to political direction (similarity 0.84)
• Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class. (similarity 0.84)
• Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process (similarity 0.83)
• Intellectuals are class-bound, not an autonomous social category (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s concept of ‘Dirigente’ links cultural hegemony to workers controlling the work process (similarity 0.82)
• Feudal clerics were intellectuals organically bound to the landed aristocracy (similarity 0.82)
• Idealist revisions of Marxism came from pure intellectuals while orthodoxy came from activists. (similarity 0.82)
• A rising class can dominate economically while old elites retain politico-intellectual supremacy. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses #expands (0.92) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224
• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271