illiteracy Antonio Gramsci ILLITERACY
Antonio Gramsci
Why in Italy there are still many illiterates?. Because in Italy there are too many people who limits his life to the bell tower, to the family. It is not felt the need of learning the Italian language, because for the communal life and family just a dialect, because life is exhausted in relation to the whole conversation in dialect. Literacy is not a need, and thus becomes a torture, the imposition of bullies. Should need to turn it into the general life was more vivid, that it would invest a number increase awareness, and so he brought a sense of individual need, the need of the alphabet and language. Has benefited more socialist propaganda literacy needs of all compulsory education law. The law is an imposition: it can amount to attend school, can not force you to learn, and when he learned, to [not] forget. Socialist propaganda immediately arouses the feeling of not only individuals living in a small circle of immediate interests (the municipality and the family), but the citizens of a wider world, with other citizens to whom we must share ideas, hopes, pain. The culture, the alphabet has thus acquired a purpose, and until when to do this live in the conscience, the love of knowledge will establish an imperious. E 'gospel truth, which the Socialists can be proud: illiteracy will disappear completely, only when the Socialists will have disappeared, because socialism is the only ideal that can become citizens, in the best sense of the word total , all the Italians who now live only personal interests of their children, men, born only to eat food.
"The City of Tomorrow, p. 2. Collected in SC, 81-82.
