Intellectual revolutions require confronting social forces, not just rival philosophies

Evidence

Essential to Gramsci’s approach is the notion that an intellectual revolution is not performed by simply confronting one philosophy with another. It is not just the ideas that require to be confronted but the social forces behind them and, more directly, the ideology these forces have generated and which has become part of what Gramsci calls “common sense”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1164

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the mechanism later Islamophobia scholarship uses: ideology critique must target the forces that generate common sense, not merely rebut prejudiced ideas.