Intellectual growth and mass cultural elevation advance dialectically together

Evidence

The process of development is tied to a dialectic between the intellectuals and the masses. The intellectual stratum develops both quantitatively and qualitatively, but every leap forward towards a new breadth and complexity of the intellectual stratum is tied to an analogous movement on the part of the mass of the “simple”, who raise themselves to higher levels of culture and at the same time extend their circle of influence towards the stratum of specialised intellectuals, producing outstanding individuals and groups of greater or less importance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1202

Categorization

• XREF: The intellectuals-mass dialectic is the structural engine behind Gramsci’s hegemony; connects to how knowledge elites and popular common sense interact. — connects to: Real material progress and democratization form the progressive elements of mass culture — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 154

Related

• Real material progress and democratization form the progressive elements of mass culture (similarity 0.83)
• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.82)
• Intellectual strata emerge from concrete historical class processes, not abstract democracy (similarity 0.82)
• Bureaucratic expansion creates masses of intellectuals justified by politics rather than production (similarity 0.81)
• Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.81)
• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.81)
• A rising class can dominate economically while old elites retain politico-intellectual supremacy. (similarity 0.79)
• Revolutionary periods produce materialist popular culture while elites cling to spiritualism (similarity 0.78)
• Progress and becoming were born together as politics in France and philosophy in Germany (similarity 0.78)
• Marxism’s educational mission to the masses absorbed its intellectual strength (similarity 0.78)