Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality.
Evidence
This means working to produce elites of intellectuals of a new type which arise directly out of the masses, but remain in contact with them to become, as it were, the whalebone in the corset. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224
Related
- Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.87)
- Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.87)
- Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.87)
- Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.86)
- Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.86)
- Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process (similarity 0.86)
- Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class. (similarity 0.85)
- Intellectuals are defined by social relations, not intrinsic activity. (similarity 0.85)
- Traditional intellectuals trace their origins to slavery and freedmen in the Roman Empire. (similarity 0.84)
- Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.84)
- Intellectual strata emerge from concrete historical class processes, not abstract democracy (similarity 0.84)
- Intellectuals are class-bound, not an autonomous social category (similarity 0.84)
- Peasant and intellectual initiatives advance each other reciprocally (similarity 0.83)
- Intellectuals act as functionaries of the superstructures mediating society and production (similarity 0.83)
- Intellectuals are any social stratum exercising organizational functions, not merely cultural elites (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses
#corroborates(0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224