criterion of distinction in the intrinsic nature of intellectual activities. rather than in the ensemble of the system of relations in which these activ ities(and therefore the intellectual groups who personify them) have their place within the general complex of social relati The emergence of any dominant social group To assimilate and to conquer"ideologically"the trad itional intellectuals To elaborate its own organic intellectuals 3, intellectuals and the political hegemony A, the new theory of superstructure: civil society and the state P12What we can do, for the moment, is to fix two major superstructural levels: the one that can be called civil soc iety, that is the ensemble of organisms commonl called 'private, and that of political society'or the state. These two levels correspond on the one hand to the function of hegemony' which the dominant group exercises throughout society and on the other hand to that of direct dominance or command exercised through the state and the jurid ical government The structural base Superstructure (civil society, the state), intellectuals: functionaries of superstructure; the expansion of the category of intellectuals in the modern world Civil society: hegemony the spontaneous consent given by the great masses of the population to the general cond ition imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group; this consent historically caused by the prestige(and the consequent confidence) which the dominant group enjoys because its position and function in the world of production The state: direct dominance The apparatus of state coercive power which "legally enforces discipline on those groups who do not"consent either actively or passively. This apparatus is, however, constituted for the whole of society in anticipation of moments of crisis of command and direction when spontaneous consent has failed 4, the dialectic Between the intellectuals and the mass A, the dialectic of mass and intellectual: the antithesis of the Catholic. P331the church: ".only by imposing an iron discipline on the intellectuals so that they do not exceed certain limits of differentiation and so render the split catastrophic and irreparable. P333"The position of the philosophy of praxis is the antithesis of the Catholic. The philosophy of praxis does not tend to leave the simple in their primitive philosophy of common sense, but rather to lead them to a higher conception of life. If it affirms3 criterion of distinction in the intrinsic nature of intellectual activities, rather than in the ensemble of the system of relations in which these activities (and therefore the intellectual groups who personify them) have their place within the general complex of social relations.” The emergence of any dominant social group: To assimilate and to conquer “ideologically” the traditional intellectuals To elaborate its own organic intellectuals 3, intellectuals and the political hegemony A, the new theory of superstructure: civil society and the state P12“What we can do, for the moment, is to fix two major superstructural levels: the one that can be called ‘civil society’, that is the ensemble of organisms commonly called ‘private’, and that of ‘political society’ or ‘the state’. These two levels correspond on the one hand to the function of ‘hegemony’ which the dominant group exercises throughout society and on the other hand to that of ‘direct dominance’ or command exercised through the state and the ‘juridical’ government. ” The structural base Superstructure (civil society, the state), intellectuals: functionaries of superstructure; the expansion of the category of intellectuals in the modern world Civil society: hegemony “the ‘spontaneous’ consent given by the great masses of the population to the general condition imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group; this consent is historically caused by the prestige (and the consequent confidence) which the dominant group enjoys because its position and function in the world of production ” The state: direct dominance “The apparatus of state coercive power which ‘legally’ enforces discipline on those groups who do not ‘consent’ either actively or passively. This apparatus is, however, constituted for the whole of society in anticipation of moments of crisis of command and direction when spontaneous consent has failed.” 4, the dialectic Between the intellectuals and the mass A, the dialectic of mass and intellectual: the antithesis of the Catholic. P331the church: “…only by imposing an iron discipline on the intellectuals so that they do not exceed certain limits of differentiation and so render the split catastrophic and irreparable.” P333 “The position of the philosophy of praxis is the antithesis of the Catholic. The philosophy of praxis does not tend to leave the ‘simple’ in their primitive philosophy of common sense, but rather to lead them to a higher conception of life. If it affirms