Antonio Gramsci

Born 1891, journalist, activist, prisoner, Marxist.

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What is important is to guarantee that freedom of movement in enunciation which is crucial for the construction of counter-hegemony.

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"all that they do in America is to remasticate the old European culture" #obama730

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Various categories of intellectuals experience an "esprit de corps", thus they put themselves forward as autonomous and independent.

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Every essential social group has found categories of intellectuals already in existence which seemed to represent an historical continuity

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...the conditions most favourable to the expansion of their own class.

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If not all entrepreneurs, at least an elite amongst them must have the capacity to be an organiser, because of the need to create...

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...and an awareness of its own function not only in the economic but also in the social and political fields.

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Every social group creates together with itelf, organically, one or more strata of intellectuals which give it homogeneity...

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Organic intellectuals are distinguished less by their profession...than by function in directing the ideas and aspirations of their class

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All men are potentially intellectuals in the sense of having an intellect and using it, but not all are intellectuals by social function.

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Are intellectuals an autonomous and independent social group, or does every social group have its own particular specialised category...?