25 Gramsci 1920a, I, n. 12, 95. And again, in his Prison Notebooks he would remember the journal as follows: “Th is editorial board was not abstract, did not consist of repeating mechanically scientifi c or theoretical formulae . . . it applied to real men, formed in specifi c historical relations, with specifi c feelings, ways of life, fragments of conceptions of the world . . . this element of 'spontaneity' was not neglected nor despised: it was educated and directed” (Gramsci in Spriano 1971, 136).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1675