Ideological forms are how people become conscious of economic conflict

Evidence

The exact quotation, from Marx’ Preface to The Critique of Political Economy , is: “a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic—in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict [i.e. that between the material productive forces of society and the existing relations of production] and fight it out”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2104

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the base/superstructure distinction foundational to Gramsci’s later theory of ideology and hegemony.
• XREF: connects to: Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out.; Ideological factors lag behind economic ones and require conscious political struggle — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 719; Ideological forms are where historical agents perceive and wage their struggles. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2547 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. #corroborates (0.97)
• Ideological forms are where historical agents perceive and wage their struggles. #corroborates (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2547
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #expands (0.76)
• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #complicates (0.75)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #expands (0.73)
• Ideological factors lag behind economic ones and require conscious political struggle #qualifies (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 719
• Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation #expands (0.71)