Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years."

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep free from public surveillance, that's natural. Its shouldn't be but, its very natural.