Industrial rationalization of production requires rationalizing the sexual instinct

Evidence

The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalisation of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalised. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1102

Categorization

• XREF: A core mechanism for the reader’s toolkit: production regimes shape subjectivity down to the sexual level — a biopolitics point that later Islamophobia readings on gendered bodies and moral panics will build on. — connects to: Rationalized production requires the elaboration of a new type of man; Adaptation to industrial work methods requires combining coercion with persuasion and consent.; Industrial habits are imposed historically through brute coercion, not consent (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the moral-panic mechanism in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — dress/sexual regulation as a proxy for production-driven social control.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1102

Broader Connections

• Adaptation to industrial work methods requires combining coercion with persuasion and consent. #expands (0.82)
• Industrial habits are imposed historically through brute coercion, not consent #contradicts (0.75)