"Dizionario gramsciano / Gramsci Dictionary: Collective Will" by Carlos Nelson Coutinho
This is a translation into English of the Dizionario gramsciano entry ‘Collective Will” by Carlos Nelson Coutinho. The concept of and need for the creation of a collective will, sometimes qualified as ‘national-popular collective will’, finds its most extensive development in a second draft text of Notebook 14. As such it is determining in the formation of social reality and, indeed, of democracy in Gramsci’s sense of rule by the people. The emphasis placed on a collective will, ‘attained through concrete individual effort’, forms part of Gramsci’s critique of the ‘positivist...
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