Gramsci’s contribution is to complexify Marxist theory, not to supply general social science.

Evidence

In doing so, he sets the concept at a critical distance from all types of economic or mechanical reductionism, from both “economism” and conspiracy theory. He redefines the whole notion of power so as to give full weight to its non-coercive aspects. He also sets the notion of domination at a distance from the direct expression of narrow class interests. He understands that ideology is not “psychological or moralistic but structural and epistemological.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 906 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s theory is activist practice within broad Marxism, not orthodoxy.; Gramsci adds concepts classical Marxism lacked for explaining modern society.; Gramsci practices an open Marxism that develops Marx beyond orthodoxy. (+3 more)

Related

• Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. (similarity 0.90)
• Gramsci adds concepts classical Marxism lacked for explaining modern society. (similarity 0.86)
• Gramsci’s theory is activist practice within broad Marxism, not orthodoxy. (similarity 0.86)
• Gramsci practices an open Marxism that develops Marx beyond orthodoxy. (similarity 0.84)
• Gramsci designed hegemony as a bulwark against economic reductionism. (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s concepts operate on Marxist terrain aimed at political practice (similarity 0.82)
• For Gramsci, hegemony is the antidote to vulgar economism. (similarity 0.81)
• Adopting Gramsci let Hall say things Marxism could not before (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s Marxism is open and supplies concepts classical Marxism lacked (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s hegemony concept treats power as non-coercive and culture-based, not class-direct (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s concept enables a regional theory of superstructural spheres. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s concepts apply productively to colonial and non-European social formations. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci links unconscious common sense to active ideologies that can organize masses. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci frames Marxism as a Reformation uniting philosophy and politics (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Gramsci adds concepts classical Marxism lacked for explaining modern society. #expands (0.90)
• Gramsci practices an open Marxism that develops Marx beyond orthodoxy. #corroborates (0.85)
• Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 906
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #expands (0.75)
• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism #expands (0.75)