Intellect is neutral means, virtuous or corrupt depending on the class that wields it.

Evidence

It is true that intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means, and the use of means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man, but he can easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity—or it may easily be a gang of crooks, or a body of advocates for a narrow clique from which it draws its support. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 967

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the Brahmins-as-intellectual-class diagnosis that follows—the double-edged nature of intellectual authority is central to his pessimism.