Building a Party /w Sotiris and Gramsci

“One should stress the importance and significance which, in the modern world,
political parties have in the elaboration and diffusion of conceptions of the world…
because essentially what they do is to work out the ethics and the politics
corresponding to these conceptions and act as it were as their historical ‘laboratory’.
The parties recruit individuals out of the working mass, and the selection is made
on practical and theoretical criteria at the same time. The relation between
theory and practice becomes even closer the more the conception is vitally and
radically innovatory and opposed to old ways of thinking. For this reason one can
say that the parties are the elaborators of new integral and all encompassing
intellectuals and the crucibles where the unification of theory and practice, understood
as a real historical process takes place.”

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