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Re-reading Gramsci and am struck by his call for overcoming the dualities of mind/body, thinkers/doers, legislators/enactors of the popular will. "Permalink On twitter.com
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"There is no human activity from which every form of intellectual can be excluded: homo faber cannot be separated from homo sapiens."Permalink On twitter.com
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Gramsci: "Each man, finally … is a “philosopher”, an artist, a man of taste, participates in a particular conception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct, and contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it."Permalink On twitter.com
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This reads as both a defense of the mind and intelligence of the laborer and as a call for a comprehensive life, lived through mind and body, art and philosophy, practical skill and visions to change the world.Permalink On twitter.com
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Here's the legislating/enacting part... based on worker's councils where "anyone who gives his consent commits himself to do something more… to be a vanguard of active and responsible work."Permalink On twitter.com
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But back to mind/body. Gramsci is arguing that putting mind over body is part of the problem, for workers and for humanity.On twitter.com
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Calls for "ensuring that the muscular-nervous effort itself… which is perpetually innovating the physical and social world, becomes the foundation of a new and integral conception of the world."Permalink On twitter.com