Philosophy functions as a practical instrument for political organizing
Evidence
In Croce, philosophy and “ideology” finally become identical, and philosophy is revealed as nothing other than a “practical instrument” for organisation and action— for organising a party, indeed an international of parties, and for a course of action in practice. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1003
Categorization
- DEFINE: Marks the fusion of philosophy and ideology — a key move in Gramsci’s toolkit where intellectuals’ abstract work is always organizational.
- XREF: connects to: Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority; Operational concepts perform a political function by inducing adjustment to society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 427; Converging virtue and commons theories yields both complementarities and organizing tensions. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 190
Related
- Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group (similarity 0.79)
- Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis links theory inseparably to practice and action (similarity 0.78)
- Operational concepts perform a political function by inducing adjustment to society (similarity 0.78)