A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses
Evidence
It must be observed that in Italy, unlike other countries, not even religion acted as an element of cohesion between people and intellectuals, and that for this very reason the philosophical crisis of the intellectuals did not extend to the people, because it did not originate from the people and there did not exist a ‘national-popular bloc’ in the religious field. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2641
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: This connects to the concept of ‘national-popular bloc’ that Gramsci develops, which Islamophobia readings build on for understanding how hegemony is secured across classes.
Related
- Religion can bind intellectuals and masses only when it originates from the people (similarity 0.94)
- The national-popular is a cultural historic bloc mediated by intellectuals, not populism (similarity 0.85)
- Politics mediates between elite and popular philosophy without eliminating hierarchy. (similarity 0.84)
- The national-popular is a cultural historic bloc between mass and national aspirations, not populism (similarity 0.83)
- Religions stay strong by preventing a split between intellectuals and lay faithful (similarity 0.82)
- Culture and common sense are a contested terrain for building popular hegemony (similarity 0.82)
- The state lacks a unitary worldview, scattering intellectuals across strata (similarity 0.81)
- Elite cultural movements fail to penetrate society unless they win collective popular faith (similarity 0.81)
- Popular beliefs can carry the energy of a material force (similarity 0.80)
- Ideologies do not spread spontaneously but require organized struggle and politics. (similarity 0.80)
- Italy’s cosmopolitan intellectuals both caused and reflected its political fragmentation. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemonic projects can refashion backward national-popular culture into reactionary formations (similarity 0.79)
- The Supercountry-Supercity literary polemic masked deeper class conflict (similarity 0.79)
- Any single religion contains multiple contradictory class-specific versions (similarity 0.79)
- Cultural unity among an elite cannot substitute for political unity of the masses. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Culture and common sense are a contested terrain for building popular hegemony
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 141