Gromcy writes that a successful ideological movement can only come about when in the process of elaborating a form of thought superior to common sense and coherent on a scientific plane. He says Catholicism is for him a very powerful conception of the world, which he says, always maintained a connection between the intellectuals, the theologians, and the ordinary people. And so for him, the challenge for the philosophy of praxis, for Marxism, for his Communist Party is to create a conception of theWorld accessible both to young militants,. still barely literate barely numerate, but also the intellectuals who are contesting and battling.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview.
Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks
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