As far as Italy is concerned the central fact is precisely the international or cosmopolitan function of its intellectuals, which is both cause and effect of the state of disintegration in which the peninsula remained from the fall of the Roman Empire up to 1870. Class groupings which do not have this fundamental role are often described as “castes” (aristocracy, etc.). The lure of older commitments – to social hierarchy, to money and to god – was not easy to avoid. A Mosca’s Elementi di Sciena Politico (new expanded edition, 1923) are worth looking at in this connection. The difference between this �lite and that imported from Germany (by Peter the Great, for example) lies in its essentially national-popular character. What are the “maximum” limits of acceptance of the term “intellectual"? This article examines Gramsci's theory of intellectuals in the light of Bauman's distinction between ‘legislators’ and ‘interpreters’. Indeed, intellectual activity must also be distinguished in terms of its intrinsic characteristics, according to levels which in moments of extreme opposition represent a real qualitative difference – at the highest level would be the creators of the various sciences, philosophy, art, etc., at the lowest the most humble “administrators” and divulgators of pre-existing, traditional, accumulated intellectual wealth.[E]. For Gramsci’s analysis of this phenomenon, see “The Function of Piedmont”. Every social group, coming into existence on the original terrain of an essential function in the world of economic production, creates together with itself, organically, one or more strata[1] of intellectuals which give it homogeneity and an awareness of its own function not only in the economic but also in the social and political fields. The SFI was formed in 1970 and the journal began publishing by 1973. To discuss Gramsci’s contribution to the development of the fields of education and culture one must therefore scour the entire corpus of his works (Borg, Buttigieg and Mayo, 2002: 3). Factory technicians do not exercise any political function over the instrumental masses, or at least this is a phase that has been superseded. 6 For Frederick Taylor and his notion of the manual worker as a “trained gorilla”, see Gramsci’s “Americanism and Fordism”, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks. From this distinction there flow a whole series of problems and possible questions for historical research. workers. All men are potentially intellectuals in the sense of having an intellect and using it, but not all are intellectuals by social function. When one distinguishes between intellectuals and non-intellectuals, one is referring in reality only to the immediate social function of the professional category of the intellectuals, that is, one has in mind the direction in which their specific professional activity is weighted, whether towards intellectual elaboration or towards muscular-nervous effort. Although sympathetic to fascism, Mosca was basically a conservative, who saw the �lite in rather more static terms than did some of his fellows. All men are potentially intellectuals in the sense of having an intellect and using it, but not all are intellectuals by social function. The very best of these intellectuals wanted to understand the world, to draw historical or trans-historical explanations for what they saw around them. Antonio Gramsci was arrested as he was writing the essay, so it remains unfinished, but his Prison Notebooks can be read as … Mosca’s so-called “political class"[3] is nothing other than the intellectual category of the dominant social group. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, activist, journalist and brilliant political philosopher who was imprisoned by Mussolini between 1926 and 193 7, wrote in his Prison Notebooks that "all men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals. New York: International Publishers, page xiii-xiv.). He must be an organiser of masses of men; he must be an organiser of the “confidence” of investors in his business, of the customers for his product, etc. Gramsci's political and social writings occur in two periods, pre-prison (1910-1926) and prison (1929-35). In 1911 Gramsci began a brilliant scholastic career at the University of Turin, where he came in contact with the Socialist Youth Federation and joined … This division of labour within the movement was vigorously contested by Lenin, who declares, in What is to be Done, that in the revolutionary party “all distinctions as between workers and intellectuals... must be obliterated”. Therefore, the intellectuals of the dominant class are seen as the real intellectuals, as the traditional intellectuals. I believe that living means taking sides. Antonio Gramsci was an early 20th century Italian Marxist philosopher and writer. With the urban intellectuals it is another matter. Antonio Gramsci, schooling and education. There are of course distinctions of level to be made. All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.[D]. The notion of “the intellectuals” as a distinct social category independent of class is a myth. In Protestant countries the difference is relatively slight (the proliferation of sects is connected with the need for a perfect’ suture between intellectuals and people, with the result that all the crudity of the effective conceptions of the popular masses is reproduced in the higher organisational sphere). Organic intellectuals of different classes are often governed by the mode of thought produced by traditional intellectuals so that they too are often conservative and are not enthusiastic about change. They have no autonomous initiative in elaborating plans for construction. to give a democratic structure to high culture and top-level technology – is not without its disadvantages: it creates the possibility of vast crises of unemployment – for the middle intellectual strata, and in all modern societies this actually takes place. The emancipatory intellectual had arrived. In each social formation, the dominant class determines what is logical and is seen as true. In both India and China the enormous gap separating intellectuals and people is manifested also in the religious field. The online edition of Student Struggle was launched in January 2019, which would include content in addition to that are already available in print edition of Student Struggle. 11 funzionari": in Italian usage the word is applied to the middle and higher echelons of the bureaucracy. up to the formation of the Weimar Republic in 1919. Again one should compare the case of France and the fierce struggles that went on to maintain the religious and moral unity of the French people. This function of a political party should emerge even more clearly from a concrete historical analysis of how both organic and traditional categories of intellectuals have developed in the context of different national histories and in that of the development of the various major social groups within each nation, particularly those groups whose economic activity has been largely instrumental. All men are potentially intellectuals in the sense of having an intellect and using it, but not all are intellectuals by social function. These intellectuals, Gramsci noted, give ‘homogeneity and awareness of its own function’ to their respective classes. Intellectuals lived in the world, were rooted in world, had their own class habits and their own class instincts. The most typical of these categories of intellectuals is that of the ecclesiastics, who for a long time (for a whole phase of history, which is partly characterised by this very monopoly) held a monopoly of a number of important services: religious ideology, that is the philosophy and science of the age, together with schools, education, morality, justice, charity, good works, etc. Gramsci’s entire project surrounding the all pervasive concept of hegemony, which runs through the Quaderni (Gramsci, 1975), is an educational project. To this end, Gramsci offers a useful set of distinctions between organic intellectuals, traditional intellect and intellectuals of a new type. Naturally this need to provide the widest base possible for the selection and elaboration of the top intellectual qualifications – i.e. In the first place there are the “traditional” professional intellectuals, literary, scientific and so on, whose position in the interstices of society has a certain inter-class aura about it but derives ultimately from past and present class relations and conceals an attachment to various historical class formations. 2 Questions of censorship apart, Gramsci’s terminology presents a number of difficulties to the translator. Even in the case of kings the belief long survived that they could heal with the laying on of hands, etc. Conversely “administrators” (“amministratori”) is used here (end of paragraph) to mean people who merely “administer” the decisions of others. That all members of a political party should be regarded as intellectuals is an affirmation that can easily lend itself to mockery and caricature. Gramsci calls these intellectuals the new intellectuals, those who throw themselves into ‘active participation in practical life, as constructor, organiser, permanent persuader’. 1971. He respects the social position of the intellectuals and in general that of state employees, but sometimes affects contempt for it, which means that his admiration is mingled with instinctive elements of envy and impassioned anger. His theory of the intellectual and of cultural hegemony are among his two most notable ideas. Imprisoned, he wrote much of his work from the jail cell (Prison Notebooks). generally thereby ceases to be organically linked to his class of origin. 8 The Ordine Nuovo, the magazine edited by Gramsci during his days as a militant in Turin, ran as a “weekly review of Socialist culture” in 1919 and 1920. Mosca’s book is an enormous hotch-potch, of a sociological and positivistic character, plus the tendentiousness of immediate politics which makes it less indigestible and livelier from a literary point of view. In Antonio Gramsci’s “Formation of the Intellectuals”, Gramsci identifies two different kinds of intellectuals: organic intellectuals and traditional intellectuals. View Antonio Gramsci’s “The Intellectuals”.pdf from SOCIOLOGY 6015 at George Washington University. But, in fact, they are governed by a certain class position, a certain view of the world that is shaped by the interests and needs of the capitalist class. These new intellectuals are not necessarily Marxists, but they are certainly invested in the struggles of the key classes of the people, and they are certainly clear about the need to fight to build a post-capitalist society. I am talking, naturally, of the first immigrants, the pioneers, protagonists of the political and religious struggles in England, defeated but not humiliated or laid low in their country of origin. Antonio Gramsci, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to twenty years in ... tribute in molecular fashion to the formation of social and political conscious-ness. Remembering Mrinal Sen: Filmmaker, Comrade, Humanist, It’s Time to Reclaim Our Campuses, Canteens and Libraries, “My mother’s experiences inspired me to research on tea plantation workers”, TMC’s Welfare Myth and the State of Unemployment in West Bengal, Blatant Violation of Reservation in CFTIs: SFI. 4 Notably in Southern Italy. The Prison Notebooks (Italian: Quaderni del carcere [kwaˈdɛrni del ˈkartʃere]) were a series of essays written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Hence Loria’s[13] conception of the unproductive “worker” (but unproductive in relation to whom and to what mode of production? [F], 2. It is less in the Catholic parts of Germany and in France; rather greater in Italy, particularly in the South and in the islands; and very great indeed in the Iberian peninsula and in the countries of Latin America. G Common opinion tends to oppose this, maintaining that the tradesman, industrialist or peasant who engages in “politicking” loses rather than gains, and is the worst type of all – which is debatable. An �lite consisting of some of the most active, energetic, enterprising and disciplined members of the society emigrates abroad and assimilates the culture and historical experiences of the most advanced countries of the West, without however losing the most essential characteristics of its own nationality, that is to say without breaking its sentimental and historical links with its own people. Furthermore: in the countryside the intellectual (priest, lawyer, notary, teacher, doctor, etc. The central argument of Gramsci’s essay on the formation of the intellectuals is simple. Lenin’s attitude to the problem of the intellectuals is closely connected with his theory of the vanguard party, and when he writes about the need for socialist consciousness to be brought to the working class from outside, the agency he foresees for carrying this out is not the traditional intelligentsia but the revolutionary party itself, in which former workers and former professional intellectuals of bourgeois origin have been fused into a single cohesive unit. The phrase “non-executive work” is a translation of “[impiego] di ordine e non di concetto” which refers to distinctions within clerical work. To take this stance, Marx suggested in that key sentence, is to believe fundamentally in the possibility of change and to trace within the present the tracks towards an emancipated future. It conceals within itself that the market is shaped by social structure, by those who are powerful enough to define the market. According to Perry Anderson’s “The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci,” “hegemony” acquired a specifically Marxist character in its us… The country which is best equipped in the construction of instruments for experimental scientific laboratories and in the construction of instruments with which to test the first instruments, can be regarded as the most complex in the technical-industrial field, with the highest level of civilisation, etc. It was under his Presidency that the religious and educational provisions of the new constitution were carried through, against violent Catholic opposition. It loses its economic supremacy but maintains for a long time a politico-intellectual supremacy and is assimilated as “traditional intellectuals” and as directive [dirigente] group by the new group in power. It also lashes with preconceptions of caste. The traditional and vulgarised type of the intellectual is given by the man of letters, the philosopher, the artist. There is a very extensive category of organic intellectuals – those, that is, who come into existence on the same industrial terrain as the economic group – but in the higher sphere we find that he old land-owning class preserves its position of virtual monopoly. Intellectual activity could not be assumed to lead inexorably towards fealty to socialism. It seems to me that, for the moment, American negroes have a national and racial spirit which is negative rather than positive, one which is a product of the struggle carried on by the whites in order to isolate and depress them. I More than two hundred of these have, I think, been counted. It is more note-worthy in Catholic countries, but its extent varies. In one particular set of cases this has proved impossible, and that is with the group of words centred around the verb dirigere (dirigente, direttivo, direzione, etc.). ‘Market choices’ mean, for instance, that those who are hungry but who have no money should not be permitted to eat. But even this ‘market’ is not a neutral term. He categorizes intellectuals based on certain skills that these intellectuals have to fulfill a function in society. F Within productive technique those strata are formed which can be said to correspond to NCO’s in the army, that is to say, for the town, skilled and specialised workers and, for the country (in a more complex fashion) share-cropping and tenant farmers – since in general terms these types of farmer correspond more or less to the type of the artisan, who is the skilled worker of a mediaeval economy. Social Democracy, following Kautsky, has tended to see the relationship between workers and intellectuals in the Socialist movement in formal and mechanistic terms, with the intellectuals – refugees from the bourgeois class – providing theory and ideology (and often leadership) for a mass base of non-intellectuals, i.e. But if one thinks about it nothing could be more exact. [7] Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a “philosopher”, an artist, a man of taste, he participates in a particular conception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct, and therefore contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes of thought. The democratic-bureaucratic system has given rise to a great mass of functions which are not all justified by the social necessities of production, though they are justified by the political necessities of the dominant fundamental group. The peasant always thinks that at least one of his sons could become an intellectual (especially a priest), thus becoming a gentleman and raising the social level of the family by facilitating its economic life through the connections which he is bound to acquire with the rest of the gentry. It is through this assumption of conscious responsibility, aided by absorption of ideas and personnel from the more advanced bourgeois intellectual strata, that the proletariat can escape from defensive corporatism and economism and advance towards hegemony. Classics in Politics: Antonio Gramsci ElecBook 134 The Formation of the Intellectuals re intellectuals an autonomous and independent social group, or does every social group have its own particular specialised category of intellectuals? The industrial base is very restricted, and has not developed complicated superstructures. The peasant’s attitude towards the intellectual is double and appears contradictory. “Hegemony” was most likely derived from the Greek egemonia, whose root is egemon, meaning “leader, ruler, often in the sense of a state other than his own” (Williams, Keywords 144). CHAPTER 4 The Intellectuals ANTONIO GRAMSCI [§ THE FORMATION OF THE INTELLECTUALS Are It also introduces its readers to important developments in education, including the struggles for a better education system. They relate to Gramsci’s ideas on Education in their stress on the democratic character of the intellectual function, but also on the class character of the formation of intellectuals through school. On the one hand it is contrasted with “domination” (and as such bound up with the opposition State/Civil Society) and on the other hand “hegemonic” is sometimes used as an opposite of “corporate” or “economic-corporate” to designate an historical phase in which a given group moves beyond a position of corporate existence and defence of its economic position and aspires to a position of leadership in the political and social arena. The notion of “the intellectuals” as a distinct social category independent of class is a myth. Typically, traditional intellectuals – being rooted in their dominant class – are conservative and against systemic change that would rattle the social order. "(Ransom 12 -16 ) a strong interest in the social history of the working class. Theirs were texts of interpretation, texts that began with an attitude towards reality that suggested its intractable nature. On the whole the average urban intellectuals are very standardised, while the top urban intellectuals are more and more identified with the industrial general staff itself. On this basis the weekly Ordine Nuovo[8] worked to develop certain forms of new intellectualism and to determine its new concepts, and this was not the least of the reasons for its success, since such a conception corresponded to latent aspirations and conformed to the development of the real forms of life. School is the instrument through which intellectuals of various levels are elaborated. “Some Aspects of the Southern Question” is an incredible essay. It is worth noting that the elaboration of intellectual strata in concrete reality does not take place on the terrain of abstract democracy but in accordance with very concrete traditional historical processes. Proofed and corrected: by Kevin Goins, 2007. The problem is a complex one, because of the variety of forms assumed to date by the real historical process of formation of the different categories of intellectuals.
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