Marxism’s educational mission to the masses absorbed its intellectual strength

Evidence

The philosophy of praxis had two tasks to perform: to combat modern ideologies in their most refined form, in order to be able to constitute its own group of independent intellectuals; and to educate the popular masses, whose culture was medieval. This second task, which was fundamental, given the character of the new philosophy, has absorbed all its strength, not only in quantitative but also in qualitative terms. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1396

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the philosophy of praxis’s dual mandate and why the popular-education task dominated.