Reform ideals must move from romantic struggle to rational method.
Evidence
His attitude is best suggested in his comment: “The active school is still in its romantic phase, in which the elements of struggle against the mechanical and Jesuitical school have become unhealthily exaggerated—through a desire to distinguish themselves sharply from the latter and for polemical reasons. It is necessary to enter the ‘classical’, rational phase, and to find in the ends to be attained the natural source for developing the appropriate methods and forms.” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 322
Categorization
- DEFINE: Gramsci’s distinction between the romantic and classical/rational phases of a movement is a usable conceptual distinction.