Ideological fronts differ fundamentally from military fronts in strategy
Evidence
On the ideological front, however, the defeat of the auxiliaries and the minor hangers-on is of all but negligible importance. Here it is necessary to engage battle with the most eminent of one’s adversaries. Otherwise one confuses newspapers with books, and petty daily polemic with scientific work. The lesser figures must be abandoned to the infinite casebook of newspaper polemic. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1541
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: This distinction between ideological and politico-military struggle is a classic Gramsci motif that connects to his hegemony/war of position analysis — useful scaffolding for how Islamophobia critiques must engage the strongest, not weakest, opponents.
Related
- Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.81)
- War of position requires unprecedented concentration of hegemony and interventionist government (similarity 0.79)
- Ideological factors lag behind economic ones and require conscious political struggle (similarity 0.79)
- Marxism allied with foreign doctrines to fight religious residue among the masses (similarity 0.78)
- Subordinated ideologies remain internally contradictory, mixing old and new elements (similarity 0.78)
- In advanced industrial states, wars of manoeuvre diminish to tactical rather than strategic roles. (similarity 0.78)