Intellectuals’ self-perception as paternalistic versus organic determines whether masses enter the state

Evidence

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. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intellectuals’ self-image as autonomous shapes ideology and politics.; Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821

Related

• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies (similarity 0.86)
• Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society. (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectual desertion causes cultural sterility until the people breed new intellectuals (similarity 0.84)
• Mobility into intellectual roles severs a person’s organic link to their class of origin (similarity 0.83)
• Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary (similarity 0.82)
• Intellectuals’ self-image as autonomous shapes ideology and politics. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies #expands (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821