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aug 26 2026 1 note facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 826049150010490880 the problem arises of whether a theoretical kasia reads read in 2026 reading books bookblr quotes 1920s 1930s 1970s 1971 antonio gramsci geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare read in translation italy 1932 historiography history facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 826033929600516096 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 posted on aug 26 2026 3 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 826033929600516096 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 my photography summer portland oregon lato stati pnw photography photography pnw pnwonderland pacific northwest taken in 2026 pdx urban photography canon powershot shadows green facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 825958495550586880 one of the most banal commonplaces which get one of the most banal commonplaces which get repeated against the elective system of forming state organs is the following that in it numbers decide everything and that the opinions of any idiot who knows how to write or in some countries even of an illiterate have exactly the same weight in determining the political course of the state as the opinions of somebody who devotes his best energies to the state and the nation etc there are numerous formulations of this some more felicitous than the one quoted which is due to mario de silva in critica fascista 15 august 1932 but the content is always the same but the fact is that it is not true in any sense that numbers decide everything nor that the opinions of all electors are of exactly equal weight numbers in this case too are simply an instrumental value giving a measure and a relation and nothing more and what then is measured what is measured is precisely the effectiveness and the expansive and persuasive capacity of the opinions of a few individuals the active minorities the elites the avant gardes etc i e their rationality historicity or concrete functionality which means it is untrue that all individual opinions have exactly equal weight ideas and opinions are not spontaneously born in each individual brain they have had a centre of formation of irradiation of dissemination of persuasion a group of men or a single individual even which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality the counting of votes is the final ceremony of a long process in which it is precisely those who devote their best energies to the state and the nation when such they are who carry the greatest weight if this hypothetical group of worthy men notwithstanding the boundless material power which they possess do not have the consent of the majority they must be judged either as inept or as not representative of national interests which cannot help being decisive in inflecting the national will in one direction rather than in another unfortunately everyone tends to confound his own private interest with that of the nation and hence to find it dreadful etc that it should be the law of numbers which decides it is better of course to become an elite by decree thus it is not a question of the people who have the brains feeling that they are being reduced to the level of the lowest illiterate but rather one of people who think they are the ones with the brains wanting to take away from the man in the street even that tiniest fraction of power of decision over the course of national life which he possesses these banal assertions have been extended from a critique of oligarchic rather than elitist origin of the parliamentary system of government it is strange that it should not be criticised because the historical rationality of numerical consensus is systematically falsified by the influence of wealth to a critique of all representative systems even those which are not parliamentary and not fashioned according to the canons of formal democracy these assertions are even less accurate in these other systems of government the people s consent does not end at the moment of voting quite the contrary that consent is presumed to be permanently active so much so that those who give it may be considered as functionaries of the state and elections as a means of voluntary enrolment of state functionaries of a certain type a means which in a certain sense may be related to the idea of self government though on a different level since elections are held on the basis not of vague generic programmes but of programmes of immediate concrete work anyone who gives his consent commits himself to do something more than the simple juridical citizen towards their realisation i e to be a vanguard of active and responsible work the voluntary element in the whole undertaking could not be stimulated in any other way as far as the broader masses are concerned and when these are not made up of amorphous citizens but of skilled productive elements then one can understand the importance that the demonstration of the vote may have from number and quality in representative systems of government in selections from the prison notebooks by antonio gramsci trans geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare posted on aug 25 2026 0 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 825958495550586880 one of the most banal commonplaces which get kasia reads read in 2026 reading books bookblr quotes 1920s 1930s 1970s 1971 antonio gramsci geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare read in translation italy mario de silva elections electoralism facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 825943451889811456 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 posted on aug 25 2026 11 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 825943451889811456 my photo from portland oregon august 2026 my photography summer portland oregon lato stati pnw photography photography pnw pnwonderland pacific northwest taken in 2026 pdx urban photography canon powershot pink flowers kwiati ciuri facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824131359092228096 it is the problem of the relations between it is the problem of the relations between structure and superstructure which must be accurately posed and resolved if the forces which are active in the history of a particular period are to be correctly analysed and the relation between them determined two principles must orient the discussion 1 that no society sets itself tasks for whose accomplishment the necessary and sufficient conditions do not either already exist or are not at least beginning to emerge and develop 2 that no society breaks down and can be replaced until it has first developed all the forms of life which are implicit in its internal relations no social order ever perishes before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have developed and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions for their existence have matured in the womb of the old society therefore mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve since looking at the matter more closely it will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation marx preface to the critique of political economy from a reflection on these two principles one can move on to develop a whole series of further principles of historical methodology meanwhile in studying a structure it is necessary to distinguish organic movements relatively permanent from movements which may be termed conjunctural and which appear as occasional immediate almost accidental conjunctural phenomena too depend on organic movements to be sure but they do not have any very far reaching historical significance they give rise to political criticism of a minor day to day character which has as its subject top political leaders and personalities with direct governmental responsibilities organic phenomena on the other hand give rise to socio historical criticism whose subject is wider social groupings beyond the public figures and beyond the top leaders when an historical period comes to be studied the great importance of this distinction becomes clear a crisis occurs sometimes lasting for decades this exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves reached maturity and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them these incessant and persistent efforts since no social formation will ever admit that it has been superseded form the terrain of the conjunctural and it is upon this terrain that the forces of opposition organise these forces seek to demonstrate that the necessary and sufficient conditions already exist to make possible and hence imperative the accomplishment of certain historical tasks imperative because any falling short before an historical duty increases the necessary disorder and prepares more serious catastrophes the demonstration in the last analysis only succeeds and is true if it becomes a new reality if the forces of opposition triumph in the immediate it is developed in a series of ideological religious philosophical political and juridical polemics whose concreteness can be estimated by the extent to which they are convincing and shift the previously existing disposition of social forces from prediction and perspective in selections from the prison notebooks by antonio gramsci trans geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare posted on aug 5 2026 0 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824131359092228096 it is the problem of the relations between kasia reads read in 2026 reading books bookblr quotes 1920s 1930s 1970s 1971 antonio gramsci geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare read in translation italy 1933 1934 karl marx historiography facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824055824217423873 betty compson photographed by abbe in motion betty compson photographed by abbe in motion picture magazine march 1921 posted on aug 4 2026 3 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824055824217423873 betty compson photographed by abbe in motion 1920s 1921 betty compson abbe portraits vintage style vintage inspiration classic film stars my edit old hollywood glamour hollywood glamour old hollywood vintage hollywood film stars classic cinema classic hollywood classic film fan magazine film magazine photography silent era silent film silent movies facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824040956854763520 a distinction must be made not only between a distinction must be made not only between diplomat and politician but also between political scientist and active politician the diplomat inevitably will move only within the bounds of effective reality since his specific activity is not the creation of some new equilibrium but the maintenance of an existing equilibrium within a certain juridical framework similarly the political scientist has to keep within the bounds of effective reality in so far as he is merely a scientist but machiavelli is not merely a scientist he is a partisan a man of powerful passions an active politician who wishes to create a new balance of forces and therefore cannot help concerning himself with what ought to be not of course in a moralistic sense hence the question cannot be posed in these terms it is more complex it is one that is to say of seeing whether what ought to be is arbitrary or necessary whether it is concrete will on the one hand or idle fancy yearning daydream on the other the active politician is a creator an initiator but he neither creates from nothing nor does he move in the turbid void of his own desires and dreams he bases himself on effective reality but what is this effective reality is it something static and immobile or is it not rather a relation of forces in continuous motion and shift of equilibrium if one applies one s will to the creation of a new equilibrium among the forces which really exist and are operative basing oneself on the particular force which one believes to be progressive and strengthening it to help it to victory one still moves on the terrain of effective reality but does so in order to dominate and transcend it or to contribute to this what ought to be is therefore concrete indeed it is the only realistic and historicist interpretation of reality it alone is history in the making and philosophy in the making it alone is politics from prediction and perspective in selections from the prison notebooks by antonio gramsci trans geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare posted on aug 4 2026 0 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 824040956854763520 a distinction must be made not only between kasia reads read in 2026 reading books bookblr quotes 1920s 1930s 1970s 1971 antonio gramsci geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare read in translation italy 1933 1934 facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 823965470087593984 leila hyams photographed by ruth harriet louise in leila hyams photographed by ruth harriet louise in picture play magazine march 1929 posted on aug 3 2026 2 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 823965470087593984 leila hyams photographed by ruth harriet louise in 1920s 1929 leila hyams ruth harriet louise portraits vintage style vintage inspiration classic film stars my edit old hollywood glamour hollywood glamour old hollywood vintage hollywood film stars classic cinema classic hollywood classic film fan magazine film magazine photography silent era silent film silent movies vintage hair facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 823950142687297536 the problem arises of whether the great the problem arises of whether the great industrialists have a permanent political party of their own it seems to me that the reply must be in the negative the great industrialists utilise all the existing parties turn by turn but they do not have their own party this does not mean that they are in anyway agnostic or apolitical their interest is in a determinate balance of forces which they obtain precisely by using their resources to reinforce one party or another in turn from the varied political checkerboard with the exception needless to say only of the enemy party whose reinforcement cannot be assisted even as a tactical move from the political party in selections from the prison notebooks by antonio gramsci trans geoffrey nowell smith quintin hoare posted on aug 3 2026 0 notes facebook twitter https dontbestingybaby tumblr com post 823950142687297536 the problem arises of whether the great kasia reads read in 2026 reading books bookblr quotes 1920s 1930s 1970s 1971 antonio gramsci geoffrey nowell smith quintin 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