Political parties are mechanisms for producing organic intellectuals

Evidence

The political party for some social groups is nothing other than their specific way of elaborating their own category of organic intellectuals directly in the political and philosophical field and not just in the field of productive technique. These intellectuals are formed in this way and cannot indeed be formed in any other way, given the general character and the conditions of formation, life and development of the social group. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 292

Categorization

• DEFINE: The political party reframed: not a machine for winning power but the privileged apparatus for elaborating a social group’s organic intellectuals.
• XREF: Carries directly into concepts of how subordinate groups build counter-hegemonic leadership, foundational to later Islamophobia analysis of community self-representation. — connects to: Every rising social group organically produces its own intellectuals to articulate its function — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1176; Being a public intellectual is a civic service fighting for democratic goods
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 292