Rural traditional intellectuals mediate peasants and state administration

Evidence

Intellectuals of the rural type are for the most part “traditional”, that is they are linked to the social mass of country people and the town (particularly small-town) petite bourgeoisie, not as yet elaborated and set in motion by the capitalist system. This type of intellectual brings into contact the peasant masses with the local and state administration (lawyers, notaries, etc.). Because of this activity they have an important politico-social function, since professional mediation is difficult to separate from political. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 287

This type of intellectual brings into contact the peasant masses with the local and state administration (lawyers, notaries, etc.). Because of this activity they have an important politico-social function, since professional mediation is difficult to separate from political. Furthermore: in the countryside the intellectual (priest, lawyer, notary, teacher, doctor, etc.), has on the whole a higher or at least a different living standard from that of the average peasant and consequently represents a social model for the peasant to look to in his aspiration to escape from or improve his condition. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 287

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the ‘traditional intellectual’ concept in its rural/petite-bourgeois form.
• XREF: Directly feeds the toolkit’s ‘hegemony and common sense’ concept that Islamophobia readings build on. — connects to: Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 287

Broader Connections

• Organic intellectuals must arise from and stay in contact with the masses #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1224