Three Principles and Three Kinds of Political Order
Author(s)
Gramsci, Antonio
Abstract
The prophesies of utopians can be seen as an attempt to overcome the fear of change. But utopian constructions have always collapsed, precisely because they were so neat and tidy that if just one detail could be shown to be wrong their would collapse as a whole. It is not the task of the Socialist to substitute on order for another. They must establish an order where there was none . The juridical maxim that they want to translate into practice is: ‘that all citizens should be able to develop their own, human personality to the full.’ The Socialist programme, I repeat, is not a utopia. It is a concrete universal that can be realized by the will. It is a principle of order, of socialist order.
