The Supercountry-Supercity literary polemic masked deeper class conflict

Evidence

In any case it is worth noting that the “literary” polemic between Supercountry and Supercity was nothing but the froth on top of the polemic between parasitic conservatism and the innovating tendencies of Italian society. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1079

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Shows Gramsci’s method of reading cultural-literary debates as displaced expressions of social-structural antagonism; carries into how Islamophobia rhetoric encodes material interests.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does Gramsci’s ‘froth on top of the polemic’ reading technique get applied to contemporary cultural debates?

Related

• A national-popular bloc requires religious and intellectual cohesion between elite and masses (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian movements’ rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 663