Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types

Evidence

Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function. They are formed in connection with all social groups, but especially in connection with the more important, and they undergo more extensive and complex elaboration in connection with the dominant social group. One of the most important characteristics of any group that is developing towards dominance is its struggle to assimilate and to conquer “ideologically” the traditional intellectuals, but this assimilation and conquest is made quicker and more efficacious the more the group in question succeeds in simultaneously elaborating its own organic intellectuals. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Intellectuals are defined by social relations, not intrinsic activity.; Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 527; Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271 (+7 more)

Related

• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.94)
• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. (similarity 0.89)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.88)
• Intellectuals are class-bound, not an autonomous social category (similarity 0.88)
• Intellectuals are defined by social relations, not intrinsic activity. (similarity 0.88)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.88)
• The intellectual category is a class myth; intellectuals divide into traditional and organic (similarity 0.87)
• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.86)
• Organic intellectuals form metonymic collectivities across class rather than shared identity (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites (similarity 0.85)
• Feudal clerics were intellectuals organically bound to the landed aristocracy (similarity 0.85)
• A ruling class lacking organic intellectuals cannot sustain hegemony (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectual strata can be graded by their organic connection to a dominant social group (similarity 0.84)
• Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class. (similarity 0.83)
• Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups conquer traditional intellectuals by developing organic ones. #expands (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271
• British Cultural Studies intellectuals simulated organic ties in the absence of an actual movement #exemplifies (0.90)
• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. #expands (0.90)
• Intellectuals are defined by social relations, not intrinsic activity. #expands (0.85)
• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224
• Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class. #expands (0.85)
• Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 527
• Intellectual desertion causes cultural sterility until the people breed new intellectuals #expands (0.70)