Economism’s crude form retains a ferment capable of higher rebirth

Evidence

However, it remains to be seen whether—in contrast to orthodox religion, which has by now quite shrivelled up—this heretical superstition has not in fact always maintained a ferment which will cause it to be reborn as a higher form of religion; in other words, if the dross of superstition is not in fact easily got rid of. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 709

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reification is not negative but rooted in commodity economy and irremediable — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 270; Crude economism explains every political movement by a guaranteed ruling-class profit; A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Reification is not negative but rooted in commodity economy and irremediable — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 270; Crude economism explains every political movement by a guaranteed ruling-class profit; A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reification is not negative but rooted in commodity economy and irremediable #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 270