Moral reform requires economic reform as its concrete form
Evidence
Can there be cultural reform, and can the position of the depressed strata of society be improved culturally, without a previous economic reform and a change in their position in the social and economic fields? Intellectual and moral reform has to be linked with a programme of economic reform—indeed the programme of economic reform is precisely the concrete form in which every intellectual and moral reform presents itself. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postwar global economic integration was framed as requiring Western moral transformation; Chicago economists knew markets require a moral, political and legal framework to function. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 333; The Other Path framed economic reform as an answer to terrorism — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1951 (+1 more)