Gramsci’s Marxism is open and supplies concepts classical Marxism lacked

Evidence

Gramsci’s work thus represents neither a “footnote” to the already-completed edifice of orthodox Marxism nor a ritual evocation of orthodoxy which is circular in the sense of producing “truths” which are already well known. Gramsci practices a genuinely “open” Marxism, which develops many of the insights of Marxist theory in the direction of new questions and conditions. Above all, his work brings into play concepts which classical Marxism did not provide but without which Marxist theory cannot adequately explain the complex social phenomena which we encounter in the modern world. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s purpose of building critical-theory vocabulary for Islamophobia studies — this frames Gramsci as the source of concepts (hegemony, common sense) that later postcolonial critique assumes.