Revolutionary phases produce popular materialism while traditional classes favor philosophies of spirit
Evidence
As it stands, it is the popular aspect of modern historicism, but it contains in itself the principle through which this historicism can be superseded. In the history of culture, which is much broader than the history of philosophy, every time that there has been a flowering of popular culture because a revolutionary phase was being passed through and because the metal of a new class was being forged from the ore of the people, there has been a flowering of “materialism”: conversely, at the same time the traditional classes clung to philosophies of the spirit. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1407
- XREF: connects to: Material conditions explain the Revolution better than its iconography — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 716; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126; Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Material conditions explain the Revolution better than its iconography
#corroborates(0.78) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 716 - Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations
#contradicts(0.78) - Popular religiosity is crassly materialist and close to common sense
#qualifies(0.75) - Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse
#expands(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 - Working-class culture emerges from its material conditions combined with class struggle
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