Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations

Evidence

Groups moved to the logic of immediate self-interest and to historical paradox. Consciousness, when it did develop, had come later in the process of the events. The revolution had caused the formation of revolutionary consciousness and had not been caused by it. The revolution was spontaneous. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

When the idea of culture enters communications research, it emerges as the environment of an organism or a system to be maintained or a power over the subject. Whatever the truth of these views—and there is truth in all of them— culture must first be seen as a set of practices, a mode of human activity, a process whereby reality is created, maintained, and transformed — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323 (#expands, via linked claim)

Both also maintain that “ideology” is not a simple form of false consciousness, to be explained as a set of myths or simple false constructions in the head. All societies require specific ideologies, which provide those systems of meaning, concepts, categories, and representations which make sense of the world, and through which men come to “live” (albeit unconsciously, and through a series of “misrecognitions”), in an imaginary way, their relation to the real, material conditions of their existence (which are only representable to them, as modes of consciousness, in and through ideology). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideological consciousness arises from phenomenal exchange relations, not directly from production.; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126; Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (+7 more)

Related

• Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions (similarity 0.89)
• Ideological consciousness arises from phenomenal exchange relations, not directly from production. (similarity 0.88)
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse (similarity 0.87)
• Revolutionary outcomes can occur without revolutionary situations via five pathways (similarity 0.84)
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Haitians’ decade of revolution had transformed their ideas beyond reenslavability (similarity 0.83)
• Real revolution is an inner process preceding any outward violence (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial revolution disproved that bourgeois ideas catalyze revolutionary consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology in everyday life matters more than formalized class-specific ideology (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary leadership must flow upward from class awareness, not downward. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism. (similarity 0.79)
• The Ordinovista movement treated knowledge as revolutionary rather than as consent-building (similarity 0.79)
• African past philosophy transmitted as culture formed revolutionary consciousness (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse #contradicts (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. #expands (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology #exemplifies (0.55)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #expands (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Ideology and material practice relate through systematic disjuncture, not correspondence #expands (0.50)