A new culture develops only with changing social relations and state formation.
Evidence
The affirmation that the philosophy is a new, independent and original conception, even though it is also a moment of world historical development, is an affirmation of the independence and originality of a new culture in incubation, which will develop with the development of social relations. What exists at any given time is a variable combination of old and new, a momentary equilibrium of cultural relations corresponding to the equilibrium of social relations. Only after the creation of the new State does the cultural problem impose itself in all its complexity and tend towards a coherent solution. In any case the attitude to be taken up before the formation of the new State can only be critico-polemical, never dogmatic; it must be a romantic attitude, but of a romanticism which is consciously aspiring to its classical synthesis. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1412
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: The ‘momentary equilibrium of cultural relations corresponding to social relations’ is core to Gramsci’s hegemony framework used throughout critical theory on the construction of the Other.