Reduction to economics enables creating a new culture
Evidence
But this reduction to economics and to politics means precisely a reduction of the highest superstructures to the level of those which adhere more closely to the structure itself-—in other words, the possibility and necessity of creating a new culture. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1024
Categorization
- DEFINE: States the base-superstructure relation driving the whole notebook: culture is a superstructure that can be rebuilt from structural crisis.
- XREF: This base-superstructure mechanism is the scaffolding the Islamophobia field’s arguments about ideology and representation assume. — connects to: Cultural forms are a reduced, simplified model for reading the economic real; Thatcher saw economics as a means to change national culture — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 635
Related
- Cultural forms are a reduced, simplified model for reading the economic real (similarity 0.85)
- Not every ideological shift directly mirrors the economic base. (similarity 0.80)
- Economic reductionism yields easy certainty but no practical political efficacy. (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci centers the base-superstructure passage as the root of nonreductionist analysis (similarity 0.79)
- Economic structure constrains but does not determine political and ideological levels. (similarity 0.79)
- Reducing all ideology to immediate structural causes is primitive infantilism (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci rejects economic reductionism to theorize political and cultural factors as relatively autonomous determinants. (similarity 0.79)
- Thatcher saw economics as a means to change national culture (similarity 0.78)
- A new culture develops only with changing social relations and state formation. (similarity 0.78)