By Antonio Gramsci, Derek Boothman
This quantity brings jointly Gramsci's writings on faith, schooling, technology, philosophy and financial concept. The topic that hyperlinks those writings is the research of ideology at its diverse degrees, and the buildings which include and reproduce it. options equivalent to subalternity and company recognition, hegemony and the construction of a counter-hegemony valuable for the formation of a brand new historic bloc, hence recur through the ebook. They supplement a few of the extra openly political writing released within the 1971 choice from the "Notebooks".
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33-4)—and only at the later stage do politicoideological ideas enter the curriculum. This is once more a position at odds with the Gentile reform (based on the proposals of the atheist Croce when he was Minister of Public Instruction in the 1920-21 Giolitti administration) which, after a gap of three generations, reintroduced religious ideology in a strict Roman Catholic form into the elementary schools and was part of a longer-term design on the part of some, that came to fruition with the concordat between the Italian state and the Vatican (see Section D of Chapter I) to weld together the political forces of conservatism, whether of secular or religious origin, into a single hegemonic bloc.
Immediately after the Communist Party’s Classics in Politics: Antonio Gramsci ElecBook Further Selections from Prison Notebooks: Introduction 41 III Congress, held in the French city of Lyon in 1926, he dictated a reappraisal of ‘The Party’s First Five Years’ (SPW 1921-26). He here says that ‘the position taken up by the Party . . must in no way lead us to encourage any ideological movements of a strictly religious nature that may emerge . . The party’s task consists in explaining the conflicts that arise on the terrain of religion as deriving from class conflicts; and in aiming to bring out with increasing clarity the class features of these conflicts.
In a letter of March 1918, asking advice of the prominent educationalist Giuseppe Lombardo-Radice (admired by him at the time for his fight for the ‘spiritual betterment of Italian youth’ but, together with Gentile, criticised in ‘Some Problems of Modern Pedagogy’, of this volume, for ‘curious regressions’ in his educational theories), he explained the club’s Classics in Politics: Antonio Gramsci ElecBook Further Selections from Prison Notebooks: Introduction 49 method: a participant would introduce an analysis of some essay by Salvemini or Croce, a part of Marx or a more general topic—in the case raised in the letter a book on education by Lombardo-Radice—and submit it to the others present, who would be expected to comment, with the aim of developing their reasoning powers and reaching the ‘intellectual and moral communion of everyone’.