(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL dossier spécial sur
l'éducation populaire - Concrete army Editions: Yes, the paper may
decide (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
To resist the cultural hegemony of the ruling classes, the editorial collective Concrete
Army publishes books smelling class pride and rebellious spirit of popular neighborhoods.
----------- Cultural hegemony is a concept previously developed by Antonio Gramsci, an
Italian Marxist activist interned under Mussolini, around a pregnant question under
fascism and which may well ask: "Why is it people most often on the side of classes
dominant? "Gramsci gives an explanation: the cultural hegemony of the ruling classes,
which carries the dominant ideology of the exploited and diverts their own interests. He
also stresses the importance for revolutionaries not to desert the cultural field. ----
Look towards Gramsci today helps to understand the magnitude of declines activists in poor
neighborhoods. We see, over the neoliberal restructuring, the destruction of workers'
solidarity. Or the last allowed the existence of social spaces, relational and emotional,
as saying of cultural spaces to conduct an ideological battle against the ruling classes.
How to remedy this? Spread the word in popular circles, it is. Materially assist the
working classes to create their own cultural spaces is better. It does not educate the
people, it helps to create spaces where people self-educated.
"The feed without the drive"
Among the militant culture spaces from working backgrounds include experience of the
collective Concrete army, which publishes books published by BboyKonsian. In August 2012,
its statement of intent said: "This collection is intended to make available to rabid
worlds neighborhoods words, broken dreams, memories of struggles, reviews and analysis
from every street, factories, construction sites, charters and prisons, and power margins
hunting grounds. Because we do not want to participate in this scheme of things, but to
destroy it, because for this, we must stop being divided and organize ourselves freely.
Because a power emerges unmanageable popular districts and we want to continue to eat
without driving. "
Concrete army in the collection have been published, including:
a documentary novel of the independent researcher Mathieu Rigouste, Theorem of hoggra.
Stories and legends of the Social War (2011)
a collection of poems of Skalpel rapper Fables of Melancholy (2012)
a collection of texts about work, The Coal (2014)
"To believe your boss that you just want to slap him with. And then let him experience
like paper may decide. "
Nico Pasadena (AL Montreuil)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Editions-Beton-ArmeE-Oui-le-papier
