Philosophy-of-praxis intellectuals stayed rooted in intermediary classes, not the people

Evidence

Something similar has happened up to now with the philosophy of praxis. The great intellectuals formed on the terrain of this philosophy, besides being few in number, were not linked with the people, they did not emerge from the people, but were the expression of traditional intermediary classes, to which they returned at the great “turning points” of history. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1411

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates the traditional-versus-organic intellectual distinction the reader needs as scaffolding for later work on who speaks for and about Muslim communities.