Regional intellectual types mediate different class relations in North and South Italy.
Evidence
The intellectual strata of North and South differ in structure and in origin: in the Mezzogiorno the predominant type is still the pettifogging lawyer [paglietta ], who ensures contact between the peasant masses and the landowners and State apparatus. In the North the dominant type is the factory “technician”, who acts as a link between the mass of the workers and the management. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 511
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s organic/traditional intellectual distinction developed elsewhere in the Notebooks; useful scaffold for how mediation roles structure hegemony.
Related
- Regional class structure determines the type of intellectual a region produces (similarity 0.85)
- In Italy ‘middle class’ means the intellectual and professional strata (similarity 0.80)
- Rural traditional intellectuals mediate peasants and state administration (similarity 0.79)