Gramsci practices an open Marxism that develops Marx beyond orthodoxy.

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. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 76

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Gramsci’s relation to the Marxist canon: open rather than orthodox, which licenses the renovations the field relies on.

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• Gramsci’s Marxism is open and supplies concepts classical Marxism lacked (similarity 0.91)
• Gramsci’s theory is activist practice within broad Marxism, not orthodoxy. (similarity 0.89)
• Gramsci adds concepts classical Marxism lacked for explaining modern society. (similarity 0.85)
• Gramsci’s concepts operate on Marxist terrain aimed at political practice (similarity 0.84)
• Successfully adopting Gramsci’s framework created new problems that forced Hall to move beyond it (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci read the Bolsheviks as living Marx’s living thought against dogmatic determinism (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci defines freedom as untrammelled thought, whereas Marx grounds it in material necessity. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s concepts stay embedded in conjunctures rather than aiming at theoretical purity. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci borrowed non-Marxist concepts while redefining them within Marxist discourse (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s contribution is to complexify Marxist theory, not to supply general social science. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis links theory inseparably to practice and action (similarity 0.80)
• Marxism’s educational mission to the masses absorbed its intellectual strength (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired (similarity 0.79)
• Tracing how Marxism got absorbed into other philosophies requires delicate analysis of hidden connections. (similarity 0.79)
• Adopting Gramsci let Hall say things Marxism could not before (similarity 0.79)