Socialism requires a transforming revolution because human experience is material.

Evidence

The revolution ends all that; the source of human dignity, it is preparing humanity, through its transformation in the revolution, for the construction of socialism. Without this transformation there will be no material base for the building of socialism. I say material advisedly since it is not only the means of production which are material, but also the accumulated experience in the heads, hearts, and hands of men. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 35 (#expands, via linked claim)

Gramsci’s work has recently been taken up and developed in a structuralist manner—especially in Althusser’s essay on “Ideological State Apparatuses” (Althusser 1971). This seminal essay differs from Gramsci’s work, specifically, in posing the problem in terms of “reproduction.” But the concerns which underlie this approach are not all that distant from those of Gramsci. The economic relations of production must themselves be “reproduced.” This reproduction is not simply economic, but social, technical, and, above all, ideological. This is another way of putting Gramsci’s observation that, to achieve its full development, capitalist social relations require to be coupled with an elaborate development and elaboration at the “non-economic” levels of politics, civil society, and culture, through moral, intellectual, and ideological leadership. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Socialism requires the material transformation of human beings, not merely of production — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 35; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126; Transforming capitalist society requires understanding its opaque base and superstructures (+4 more)

Related

• Socialism requires the material transformation of human beings, not merely of production (similarity 0.91)
• Socialism in India cannot succeed without first solving social reform. (similarity 0.83)
• Marx distinguishes material economic transformation from ideological forms of consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Revolution fundamentally pursues human dignity rather than mere material survival (similarity 0.80)
• Holding history against human essence yields a categorical demand for total revolution over reform (similarity 0.78)
• Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Socialism requires the material transformation of human beings, not merely of production #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 35
• Transforming capitalist society requires understanding its opaque base and superstructures #expands (0.60)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically #corroborates (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Common sense can be worked upon to transform it into conscious class struggle #expands (0.55)
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse #complicates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126
• Moral transformation requires grinding away the old self first. #qualifies (0.45) — , A Year of World Stories, 11611