Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society.

Evidence

In this connection, I should like to say something that I have found in many other writers: Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821; Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821; Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (+1 more)

Related

• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies (similarity 0.96)
• Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary (similarity 0.95)
• Intellectual desertion causes cultural sterility until the people breed new intellectuals (similarity 0.87)
• Intellectuals’ self-perception as paternalistic versus organic determines whether masses enter the state (similarity 0.85)
• Mobility into intellectual roles severs a person’s organic link to their class of origin (similarity 0.84)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.80)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation #qualifies (0.65)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #expands (0.50)