Peasant and intellectual movements reinforce each other dialectically

Evidence

The relation between these two actions was dialectical and reciprocal: the experience of many countries, first and foremost that of France in the period of the great Revolution, has shown that, if the peasants move through “spontaneous” impulses, the intellectuals start to waver; and, reciprocally, if a group of intellectuals situates itself on a new basis of concrete pro-peasant policies, it ends up by drawing with it ever more important elements of the masses. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 463

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the organic versus traditional intellectual distinction elsewhere in Gramsci and later to how counter-hegemonic movements in Islamophobia studies need both elite reorientation and mass base.