Regional class structure determines the type of intellectual a region produces

Evidence

Thus in Italy the rural bourgeoisie produces in particular state functionaries and professional people, whereas the urban bourgeoisie produces technicians for industry. Consequently it is largely northern Italy which produces technicians and the South which produces functionaries and professional men . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical grounding for the general claim in 275; the North-South Italian divide parallels how colonial knowledge economies allocate roles between metropole and periphery. — connects to: A constructed ideal intellectual combines Third World origin with metropolitan location — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 845