Organic intellectuals must both advance theory and transmit it beyond their class.

Evidence

What interests Gramsci is how the existing ideologies—the “common sense” of the fundamental classes—which are themselves the complex result of previous moments and resolutions in the ideological class struggle, can be actively worked upon so as to transform them into the basis of a more conscious struggle, and form of intervention in the historical process. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Organic intellectuals must advance theory and transmit it simultaneously. (similarity 0.86)
• Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.86)
• Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.85)
• Gramscian ideology links unconscious common sense to conscious mass organization. (similarity 0.85)
• Organic versus traditional intellectuals is the key axis for analysis (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.83)
• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.82)
• The intellectual category is a class myth; intellectuals divide into traditional and organic (similarity 0.82)
• Popular common sense is sedimented class struggle that can be actively reworked (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci links unconscious common sense to active ideologies that can organize masses. (similarity 0.82)
• Intellectuals either serve existing power or align with emerging popular forces. (similarity 0.82)
• Mass ideology must be distinguished from its great philosophical cornerstones (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony can be achieved through dominance over the work process. (similarity 0.81)
• Intellectual strata can be graded by their organic connection to a dominant social group (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Common sense can be worked upon to transform it into conscious class struggle #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Intellectual work must produce new knowledges rather than recirculate known conclusions #expands (0.55)