Ideas become a material force when carried into revolutionary political practice.

Evidence

The reference here is not only to Marx’s argument about “ideas becoming a material force”, but also to Lenin and the achievement of proletarian hegemony through the Soviet revolution (see below pp. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2478

Categorization

• XREF: Links Marx’s ‘ideas becoming a material force’ to Lenin’s claim that proletarian hegemony was realized through the Soviet revolution; this is the bridge from theory to practice the Islamophobia module’s hegemony readings assume. — connects to: Metaphors materially shape intellectual and political practice. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 246; Ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 136; Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Anchors ‘hegemony’ to its Leninist usage before Gramsci’s extension of it.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Metaphors materially shape intellectual and political practice. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 246; Ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 136; Imagination precedes and enables the achievement of political transformation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3429 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideas gain force only when paired with practical execution and political will #corroborates (0.93) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 422
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse #complicates (0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126
• Ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility. #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 136
• Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions #complicates (0.73)
• Radical ideas inevitably transform into domination to survive #complicates (0.71) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 182