Redefining intellectuals by social function clashes with caste preconceptions

Evidence

This way of posing the problem has as a result a considerable extension of the concept of intellectual, but it is the only way which enables one to reach a concrete approximation of reality. It also clashes with preconceptions of caste. The function of organising social hegemony and state domination certainly gives rise to a particular division of labour and therefore to a whole hierarchy of qualifications in some of which there is no apparent attribution of directive or organisational functions. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 280

Categorization

• XREF: The functional (not caste-based) definition of intellectual is what lets later theorists call journalists, educators, clerics — not just philosophers — the intellectuals of Islamophobia.