Adopting Gramsci let Hall say things Marxism could not before

Evidence

Culturalism’s strengths can almost be derived from the weaknesses of the structuralist position already noted, and from the latter’s strategic absences and silences. It has insisted, correctly, on the affirmative moment of the development of conscious struggle and organization as a necessary element in the analysis of history, ideology, and consciousness: against its persistent downgrading in the structuralist paradigm. Here, again, it is largely Gramsci who has provided us with a set of more refined terms through which to link the largely “unconscious” and given cultural categories of “common sense” with the formation of more active and organic ideologies, which have the capacity to intervene in the ground of common sense and popular traditions and, through such interventions, to organize masses of men and women. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 202 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Gramsci links unconscious common sense to active ideologies that can organize masses. (similarity 0.91)
• Gramscian ideology links unconscious common sense to conscious mass organization. (similarity 0.87)
• Hall’s Marxism fused Althusser read through Gramsci into a non-reductionist framework (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology must be conceived as a terrain of struggle, not just functional cement (similarity 0.84)
• Successfully adopting Gramsci’s framework created new problems that forced Hall to move beyond it (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci’s contribution is to complexify Marxist theory, not to supply general social science. (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s concept enables a regional theory of superstructural spheres. (similarity 0.82)
• Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus concept derives directly from Gramsci. (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci and Laclau reconceived ideology as a terrain of struggle rather than dominant cement. (similarity 0.82)
• Althusser’s reproduction theory remains more functionalist than Gramsci’s despite nods to class struggle (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s concepts apply productively to colonial and non-European social formations. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s theory is activist practice within broad Marxism, not orthodoxy. (similarity 0.81)
• Marx distinguishes material economic transformation from ideological forms of consciousness (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci supplemented Marx because conjunctural analysis and ideology were underdeveloped in classical Marxism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life #expands (0.60)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. #expands (0.60)
• Ideology theory in Capital informed Hall’s reading of Marx. #expands (0.55)
• Gramsci links unconscious common sense to active ideologies that can organize masses. #expands (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 202
• Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus concept derives directly from Gramsci. #expands (0.50)