Such 'organic' intellectuals do not simply describe social life in accordance with scientific rules, but rather articulate, through the language of culture, the feelings and experiences which the masses could not express for themselves.

Dr. Gaines, who wrote "Teenage Wasteland," a book about suburban alienation, says Mr. Stevenson is "the epitome of an organic intellectual.

Michael Yates described Le Blanc as "an 'organic intellectual,' a scholar and activist who has risen directly out of the working class."

But the notion of the public intellectual is much older than that of, say, the gentlemen-scholar, whom no one sneers at, except perhaps organic intellectuals.

The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci believed that all people are "organic intellectuals," in other words, being an intellectual is not just reserved for the elite or upper classes.

Social theory develops in the hands of 'organic intellectuals' in Gramsci's sense.

Labor's real, "home-grown" or "organic" intellectuals, were pragmatic, accepting of capitalism and content to win for workers as much as they could gain within its framework.

Beckford held that the magazine showed how "organic intellectuals" of ISKCON were discussing their research and ideas with scholars and in some cases conducting joint research.

He rejected Gramsci's notion of "organic intellectuals" being developed by the working class itself.

It is also appropriate therefore, to theorise lawyers as organic intellectuals of the bourgeois class.