Units of economics, philosophy, and politics each center on a man-nature contradiction

Evidence

Unity is given by the dialectical development of the contradictions between man and matter (nature—material forces of production). In economics the unitary centre is value, alias the relationship between the worker and the industrial productive forces (those who deny the theory fall into crass vulgar materialism by posing machines in themselves—as constant and technical capital—as producers of value independent of the man who runs them). In philosophy [it is] praxis, that is, the relationship between human will (superstructure) and economic structure. In politics [it is] the relationship between the State and civil society, that is, the intervention of the State (centralised will) to educate the educator, the social environment in general. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1428

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the unitary centre of each domain: value in economics, praxis in philosophy, State-civil society relation in politics.
• XREF: The ‘educate the educator’ phrase echoes Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, a source the reader’s Frankfurt School background will recognize. — connects to: All political theory rests on two opposing views of human nature; Economic and political problems are never only about economics or politics; Economic and juridical-political thought are heterogeneous and incompatible worlds — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1454 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: All political theory rests on two opposing views of human nature; Economic and political problems are never only about economics or politics; Economic and juridical-political thought are heterogeneous and incompatible worlds — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1454 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic and juridical-political thought are heterogeneous and incompatible worlds #complicates (0.78) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1454