The modern Prince must organise both moral reform and collective will

Evidence

The modern Prince must be and cannot but be the proclaimer and organiser of an intellectual and moral reform, which also means creating the terrain for a subsequent development of the national-popular collective will towards the realisation of a superior, total form of modern civilisation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 614

Categorization

  • XREF: Defines the ‘modern Prince’ as intellectual-moral-reform organizer, not mere ruler — a founding concept for Gramsci’s theory of the party/collective intellectual.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 614