Subaltern speech becomes political only when entering responsible resistance structures.

Evidence

When the subaltern “speaks” in order to be heard and gets into the structure of responsible (responding and being responded to) resistance, he or she is on the way to becoming an organic intellectual. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the threshold at which subaltern speech becomes organic-intellectual: entering a structure of response and responsibility.
• XREF: Connects directly to Gramsci’s organic intellectual concept and the reader’s tracing of subalternity from ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?.’ — connects to: Subaltern speech becomes agency only within responsive resistance; Subaltern groups only unify once they can become a State; Groups without a shared political language produce only inarticulate noise — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 605 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The subaltern can speak, as liberation movements attest #complicates (0.85)
• Groups without a shared political language produce only inarticulate noise #complicates (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 605
• Subaltern groups only unify once they can become a State #qualifies (0.75)
• Deconstruction paradoxically requires political resistance to stay silent and unprogrammatic #complicates (0.70) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 321