A new conformism built from below on production enables genuine freedom

Evidence

What is the point of reference for the new world in gestation? The world of production; work. The greatest utilitarianism must go to found any analysis of the moral and intellectual institutions to be created and of the principles to be propagated. Collective and individual life must be organised with a view to the maximum yield of the productive apparatus. The development of economic forces on new bases and the progressive installation of the new structure will heal the contradictions which cannot fail to exist, and, when they have created a new ‘conformism’ from below, will permit new possibilities for self-discipline, i.e. for freedom, including that of the individual. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2313

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s claim that freedom is not the absence of conformism but self-discipline within a hegemonic order rooted in production.

Related

• Gramsci defines freedom as untrammelled thought, whereas Marx grounds it in material necessity. (similarity 0.79)
• Rationalized production requires the elaboration of a new type of man (similarity 0.79)
• The mode of production’s creation determines whether a society becomes free. (similarity 0.78)