The Intellectual Movement in Turkey through Gramsci and Luxemburg

A petition signed by Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals denouncing the attacks in South East of Turkey and demanding a return to peace allows to question how this intellectual movement can be evaluated as a political action and/or a form of resistance. Here I will try to analyze it from two different aspects: 1) the role of intellectuals leading social change; 2) the form of this movement. The first aspect is associated with the relation of theory to praxis. The questions are: is the role of intellectuals in society only educative or pedagogical? Or can they also play the role of directors, org... Mehr ...