New orders are built by those who bear the burden, not the condemned
Evidence
But it is not from the social groups “condemned” by the new order that reconstruction is to be expected, but from those on whom is imposed the burden of creating with their own suffering the material bases of the new order. It is they who “must” find for themselves an “original”, and not Americanised, system of living, to turn into “freedom” what today is “necessity”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1159
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Emerging orders ground themselves in production, not in inherited moral authority. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2313