Intellectuals in The Right Mistake 

“All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.” en “Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a “philosopher”, an artist, a man of taste, he participates in a particular conception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct, and therefore contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes of thought.” schrijft Antonio Gramsci in “The Intellectuals”. Dit zijn ook de uitgangspunten die Socrates Fortlow schijnt te hebben in Walter Mosley’s The Right Mistake bij het oprichten van the Big Nickel en de gesprekken die er elke donderdagavond plaatsvinden. (More …)