Gramsci's generation was able to imagine that a political party could be the focus of people's daily life. Socialist and communist parties had sports clubs, hiking clubs, reading clubs. It is arguable that no one actually goes to a political party for all of those daily life things we have so many institutions in mass culture. And since our politics are divided, we vote where we live, we don't vote where we work.
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