Ideological forms are where historical agents perceive and wage their struggles.
Evidence
In considering such [revolutionary] transformations 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 and fight it out. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2547
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the reader’s Foundations reading of hegemony and common sense: cultural and legal forms are not decorative but the operative arena of politics. — connects to: Ideological forms are how people become conscious of economic conflict — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2104; Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out.; Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 151 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ideological forms are how people become conscious of economic conflict — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2104; Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out.; Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 151 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out.
#corroborates(0.97) - Ideology must be conceived as a terrain of struggle, not just functional cement
#corroborates(0.94) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201 - Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau.
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