Positive culture-building precedes negative polemics like anti-clericalism in hegemonic struggle

Evidence

One can thus open the struggle for an autonomous and superior culture, the positive part of the struggle whose negative and polemical manifestations bear names with “a -” ‘privative and “anti -” —a-theism, anti-clericalism etc. One thus gives a modern and contemporary form to the traditional secular humanism which must be the ethical basis of the new type of State. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1381

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci insists the constructive dimension of ideological struggle (building the new ethical order) is analytically prior to its merely negative/oppositional form.