Marxism influenced modern thought most powerfully through diffuse, unacknowledged absorption

Evidence

But the most difficult and delicate research is that into implicit and unacknowledged absorption, which has taken place precisely because the philosophy of praxis has been a moment of modern culture, a diffuse atmosphere, which has modified old ways of thinking through actions and reactions which are neither apparent nor immediate. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1392

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• XREF: This ‘diffuse atmosphere’ claim about how a body of theory shapes a culture’s ambient assumptions resonates with the toolkit idea that hegemony works as taken-for-granted common sense rather than explicit doctrine.
• QUESTION: Would be worth testing whether Islamophobia theory itself has been so absorbed into adjacent discourses (e.g., secularism debates) that its influence now runs implicitly.