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Article: The New Prince in a New Principality: OCAP and the Toronto Poor. (Controversy).(Ontario Coalition Against Poverty )
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- Labour/Le Travail
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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[The philosophy of praxis] is consciousness full of contradictions, in which the philosopher himself, understood both individually and as an entire social group, not only grasps the contradictions, but posits himself as an element of the contradiction and elevates this element to a principle of knowledge and therefore of action.
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, trans and eds., Quinton Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (London 1971), 405.
IN THIS PAPER, to understand the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) now, I shall begin by discussing "the philosopher himself" (not my habitual strategy) and my contradictory situation as a left ...