Intellectual status belongs to anyone performing a directive and organisational function
Evidence
By “intellectuals” must be understood not those strata commonly described by this term, but in general the entire social stratum which exercises an organisational function in the wide sensewhether in the field of production, or in that of culture, or in that of political administration. They correspond to the NCOs and junior officers in the army, and also partly to the higher officers who have risen from the ranks. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 527 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 527
Related
- Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites (similarity 0.94)
- Everyone is an intellectual, but few hold the social function. (similarity 0.92)
- Intellectuals are defined by social relations, not intrinsic activity. (similarity 0.88)
- Being an intellectual is defined by directive and educative function, not education level. (similarity 0.85)
- Intellectuals act as functionaries of the superstructures mediating society and production (similarity 0.83)
- Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.81)
- Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.80)
- Redefining intellectuals by social function clashes with caste preconceptions (similarity 0.80)
- Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.79)
- Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites
#corroborates(0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 527