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�

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