ABSTRACT
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 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 most typical of these categories of intellectuals is that of the ecclesiastics, who for a long time 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. Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function. They are formed in connection with all social groups, but especially in connection with the more important, and they undergo more extensive and complex elaboration in connection with the dominant social group.
