Acid Redux Dear Editors, I enjoyed reading Deeva Gupta’s letter, “The Organic Intellectual Situation” in Issue 48, written in response to my Issue 47 piece, “Acid Rhythms.” The letter opened up big questions through a small, often misemployed phrase — the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s term “organic intellectuals” — that I used in my piece on Detroit’s music and organizing cultures. As Gupta points out, the term organic intellectual is often misconstrued as an identitarian category, partly because the English translation suggests a sort of natural rootedness. You’re an organic bourgeois intellectual, say, if you check all three boxes of being an intellectual, being bourgeois, and being someone who dedicates their intellectual work to the non-class-traitorous project of the bourgeoisie. And you’re a working-class organic intellectual if . . .…