The party functions as the proletariat’s organic intellectuals

Evidence

Among the themes outlined by Gramsci in the course of the discussion, according to Lisa, were the following: 1. the conception of the party as the organic intellectuals of the proletariat, indispensable if the latter is to win power; 2. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 234

Categorization

• DEFINE: Party-as-organic-intellectuals is one of Gramsci’s signature conceptual formulations feeding the hegemony toolkit.
• XREF: Links directly to the Gramscian ‘organic intellectuals’ concept used throughout the Islamophobia field’s treatment of knowledge production.