The party that Gramscian thought promised is absent

Evidence

Also, contrary to the promise that in the Gramscian discourse clinches the organic intellectual, namely that there is a party out there to deliver, the party isn’t there. So it’s the organic intellectual, metaphorically, as the hope, and it’s the specific intellectual as the mode of operation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 278

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the crucial distinction between the organic intellectual (aspirational metaphor) and the specific intellectual (operational mode) in Hall’s revision of Gramsci.