Economic extremism and cultural opportunism are twin aspects of the same political immaturity.

Evidence

Gramsci, years later in his Prison Notebooks, was to write of this clash: “It is often claimed that [Bordiga’s] ‘economistic’ extremism was justified by [Tasca’s] cultural opportunism … but might it not be replied, vice versa, that the cultural opportunism was justified by the economistic extremism? In reality, neither one nor the other was justifiable’ nor should they ever be justified. They should be ‘explained’ realistically as twin aspects of the same immaturity and the same primitivism” (PP pp. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 68

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: This twin-aspects framing of opposing errors connects forward to how Gramsci later treats economism vs. culturalism in the Islamic/Marxist debates and to his critique of both mechanist and voluntarist poles in the philosophy of praxis.