Politics disguised as culture becomes insoluble jargon.

Evidence

In any case it is certain that in such parties cultural functions predominate, which means that political language becomes jargon. In other words, political questions are disguised as cultural ones, and as such become insoluble. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 665

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this mechanism of ‘politics disguised as culture’ map onto contemporary discourse where cultural questions absorb political ones?
• XREF: This is a reverse of hegemony logic: culture serving to obscure rather than organize politics. Connects to later readings on representation of the Other.