Antonio Gramsci and The Necessity of Political Action
After I blogged this, I realized that it is entirely in keeping with the goals stated on About The Foundation. So, I am reproducing it here:
“Mass ideological factors always lag behind mass economic phenomena, and that therefore, at certain moments, the automatic thrust due to the economic factor is slowed down, obstructed or even momentarily broken by traditional ideological elements — hence that there must be a conscious, planned struggle to ensure that the exigencies of the economic position of the masses, which may conflict with the traditional leadership’s policies, are understood. An appropriate political initiative is always necessary to liberate the economic thrust from the dead weight of traditional policies….�
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, “The Modern Prince�
read the whole post via Paul B. Hartzog’s blog…
October 11th, 2006 at 3:21 am
Re-Inventing Political Activism In The P2P Era…
Paul Hartzog has posted an interesting blog today about change, and about, perhaps, the absence of political activism/Civic Engagement from the development of P2P thinking. I am going to repost Paul’s entire blog posting below, for the purposes of dis…