Gramsci’s editorial work treated worker spontaneity as material to be educated, not bypassed
Evidence
25 Gramsci 1920a, I, n. 12, 95. And again, in his Prison Notebooks he would remember the journal as follows: “Th is editorial board was not abstract, did not consist of repeating mechanically scientifi c or theoretical formulae … it applied to real men, formed in specifi c historical relations, with specifi c feelings, ways of life, fragments of conceptions of the world … this element of ‘spontaneity’ was not neglected nor despised: it was educated and directed” (Gramsci in Spriano 1971, 136). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1675
Categorization
- DEFINE: Captures Gramsci’s concept of educated spontaneity, distinguishing his pedagogy from both mechanical theory and passive spontaneity.
- XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s project centers on forging working-class organic intellectuals