Official philosophy is reduced to a mental Taylorism serving industry
Evidence
These systems influence the popular masses as an external political force, an element of cohesive force exercised by the ruling classes and therefore an element of subordination to an external hegemony. This limits the original thought of the popular masses in a negative direction, without having the positive effect of a vital ferment of interior transformation of what the masses think in an embryonic and chaotic form about the world and life. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Taylorism deliberately breaks up skilled workers’ psycho-physical nexus; Ruling-class philosophy subordinates masses without positively transforming their thought — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504; High philosophy influences the masses as external coercion, not as transforming thought (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Taylorism deliberately breaks up skilled workers’ psycho-physical nexus
#expands(0.85) - Ruling-class philosophy subordinates masses without positively transforming their thought
#corroborates(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504 - High philosophy influences the masses as external coercion, not as transforming thought
#corroborates(0.80) - Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group
#corroborates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1507 - critical philosophy that becomes serviceable to power turns its own positives destructive
#complicates(0.72) - The logic of selfhood becomes indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation
#exemplifies(0.70) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 25 - Philosophy’s task is resisting the status quo’s suggestive compulsion
#contradicts(0.70) - Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions
#exemplifies(0.70)