The article is about the development of the analysis of the concept and role of the intellectuals by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in Prison notebooks. Our aim is to present the main elements that arrange the intellectuals' role in the exercise and maintenance of the social classes' hegemony processes in the capitalism, as well as the processes that make it possible the intellectual activity towards the building up of a new hegemony project of the lower classes. At this point the concepts of common sense, judgement, intellectual and moral reform and, mainly, the relationship between intellectuals and parties arise.
Intellectuals; Gramsci's thoughts; Hegemony
