To DAFYDD ELIS-THOMAS, MP
in solidarity and in answer to a question:
If the relationship between intellectuals and people/nation, between the leaders and the led, the rulers and the ruled, is provided by an organic cohesion in which feeling-passion becomes understanding and thence knowledge (not mechanically but in a way that is alive), then and only then is the relationship one of representation.
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks
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