Further, Barker explains:

“By contrast, organic intellectuals are said to be a constitutive part of working- class (and later feminist, postcolonial, African-American, etc.) struggle. They are said to be the thinking and organizing elements of the counter­hegemonic class and its allies.”

This refers to the organic intellectual as one who considers it his / her duty to stand up for the underprivileged communities, class, race or gender; who through their work contest the prevailing ideologies and the ways in which the so called social order is maintained by the ruling class through an ideology which is in their service. The organic intellectuals are a part of these working class/communities. This of course is not to say that a person in a profession, like a university professor, or a doctor or an engineer cannot be an organic intellectual while holding one's profession. One's very work could fulfil the requirements of being an organic intellectual.