Gramsci’s early hardship formed his insistence that learning is disciplined work

Evidence

Something of his individual experience is thus carried over into his repeated emphasis on learning as work. (Just as his childhood experience led him to value so highly an education which combated “folklore” and “magic”.) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 323

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s editorial work treated worker spontaneity as material to be educated, not bypassed — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1675; Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals; Gramsci frames critical consciousness as needing a patient inventory of one’s historical traces — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 267
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gramsci’s editorial work treated worker spontaneity as material to be educated, not bypassed — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1675; Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals; Gramsci frames critical consciousness as needing a patient inventory of one’s historical traces — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 267