[lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of theMarxist Tradition (Re: Moderation)

[Carrol Cox]

Class is a relation and a process, not an identity, a categorization of
life styles, a job description. No empirical description, therefore, can
reveal class. It has been a long time since I read Gramsci, cut I will
venture a hypothesis -- the concept of "organic intellectual" is
relevant only during periods of heightened class conflict. In other
periods such might or might not exist, cut would be invisible, even to
themselves, if they did exist. "Intellectual," too. is not an identity
but a process.

Carrol