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Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsci about prefiguration

In: The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci

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  • Dorothea Elena Schoppek

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Gramsci’s activism and journalism around the 1919 Factory Councils movement in Turin drew his attention to the need to create the embryonic structure of socialism, to ‘weld […] [the present] to the future […], so that while satisfying the urgent necessities of the one we may work effectively to create and “anticipate” the other?’. His concern with prefigurative politics and how it relates to contemporary debates in which the concept of prefiguration has (re-)gained a lot of attention is at the center of this chapter. The chapter explores the ways in which some expected shortcomings of prefigurative approaches to transformation can be addressed by understanding them as an integral part of a ‘war of position’ rather than a transformative approach in its own right.

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  • Dorothea Elena Schoppek, 2024. "Welding the present to the future ... thinking with Gramsci about prefiguration," Chapters, in: William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci, chapter 12, pages 204-218, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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