Intellectual production is always positioned within class struggle

Evidence

I write these pages without the detached manner typical of economists. This does not mean abandoning the scientific rigor of investigation. On the contrary, I accept my role as an academic researcher gathering evidence. I accept the unavoidable social positioning of the intellectual, which, as Antonio Gramsci reminds us, is organic to the class struggle. No one who produces knowledge is exempt from the influence of their socioeconomic status: my life, and my place in the world, informs my work. Unlike most economists, therefore, I am aware that I don’t exist above the economy, simply observing it; like all other citizens, I live within it. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 45

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• XREF: Gramsci’s ‘organic intellectual’ frames her research stance; methodological transparency the reader may want to weigh when reconstructing the argument.

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• Organic working-class intellectuals link production roles to political direction (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism is a class-divided socioeconomic system of contingent human making. (similarity 0.79)
• Pure economics redefined capital as deserved savings, not a social relation. (similarity 0.79)
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• Neoclassical economics replaced class analysis with individualistic merit narratives (similarity 0.78)
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