Peasant and intellectual initiatives advance each other reciprocally
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: Jacobinism means organically uniting city and countryside through peasant consent; Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically; Genuine political knowledge requires sentimental connection between intellectuals and the people (+3 more)
Related
- Intellectuals should ground analysis in history, culture, and socioeconomic reality. (similarity 0.83)
- Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses (similarity 0.82)
- Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process (similarity 0.82)
- National-popular collective will requires the peasant mass to enter politics simultaneously. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals (similarity 0.81)
- Rural traditional intellectuals mediate peasants and state administration (similarity 0.81)
- Organic intellectuals arise from technical-educational elaboration of labor. (similarity 0.80)
- A revolutionary class needs a peasant base and agrarian program to win (similarity 0.80)
- Proletariat and intellectuals need each other mutually for revolution (similarity 0.79)
- Intellectuals are never class-neutral but split into traditional and organic types (similarity 0.79)
- Feudal clerics were intellectuals organically bound to the landed aristocracy (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses
#corroborates(0.92) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224 - Genuine political knowledge requires sentimental connection between intellectuals and the people
#expands(0.90)