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Philosophy of Praxis, Ideology-Critique, and the Relevance of a ‘Luxemburg-Gramsci Line’
In: Historical MaterialismAfter highlighting the philological and theoretical fortes of Peter Thomas’s The Gramscian Moment, the intervention questions his assumption of Gramsci’s allegedly ‘neutral’ concept of ideology. This interpretation is one-sided in that it leaves out the ideology-critique adopted via Labriola and practised throughout Gramsci’s work. Gramsci’s perspective of rendering people’s common sense more coherent opens up a more democratic perspective than Kautsky’s and Lenin’s notion that socialist class-consciousness is to be brought ‘from without’. The intervention argues that the reconstruction of a ‘Luxemburg-Gramsci line’ is of importance for today’s debates and struggles.
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Adolphi Wolphram ‘ “Die Linie Luxemburg-Gramsci” und linke Theorie und Praxis heute. XI. Internationale Tagung des InkriT vom 7. bis 10. Juni 2007’ Utopie Kreativ 2008 209 234 41
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Althusser Louis & Balibar Étienne Brewster Ben Reading ‘Capital’ 2009 London Verso
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Gramsci Antonio Hoare Quintin & Nowell-Smith Geoffrey Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci 1971 New York International Publishers
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Thomas Peter D. The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism, Historical Materialism 2009 Book Series, Leiden Brill
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Weiss Peter Notizbücher 1971–1980 1981 Volume 1 Frankfurt Suhrkamp Verlag
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Thomas 2009, p. 271.
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Thomas 2009, pp. XIX, 39.
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Haug 1994, p. 1199.
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Frosini 2003, p. 16.
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Thomas 2009, pp. 106, 108.
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Marx and Engels 1975–2005b, p. 3.
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Thomas 2009, pp. 386 et sqq.
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10
Althusser and Balibar 2009, p. 155.
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Marx and Engels 1975–2005b, p. 3.
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12
Thomas 2009, p. 394. Cf. Q11, §12.
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13
Thomas 2009, pp. 397–8.
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14
Thomas 2009, p. 449.
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Cf. the critique in Rehmann 2013, pp. 155–60, 173–8.
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Thomas 2009, p. 101, n. 46; p. 225, n. 62.
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17
Cf. Thomas 2009, pp. 246 et sqq.
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Marx and Engels 1975–2005a, pp. 91, 142.
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19
Cf. Haug 2006, pp. 264–5. It would be a rewarding task to show that Marx’s method of historical-critical reconstruction and Gramsci’s philological critique have the potential to encompass Derrida’s deconstruction as well as to transcend and ‘sublate’ it.
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21
Thomas 2009, p. 249.
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22
Thomas 2009, p. 253.
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24
Thomas 2009, p. 281; emphasis mine, JR.
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25
Thomas 2009, pp. 277–8, 291–2, 298, 377.
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26
Cf. Q10.I, §10 (Gramsci 1995, pp. 351–4) and Q10.II, §31i (Gramsci 1995, pp. 383–9).
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30
Q 10.II, §41xii; cf. Gramsci 1995, pp. 395–6.
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33
Cf. Marx and Engels 1975–2005e, pp. 87, 542; Marx 1976, pp. 169, 682.
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35
Marx and Engels 1975–2005c, p. 506.
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37
Cf. Labriola 1966, pp. 98, 123; Labriola 1964, pp. 77, 91. In regard to ‘critical communism’ versus premature ‘ideologies of communism’, cf. Labriola 1966, pp. 73–4; Labriola 1964, pp. 52–3.
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Cf. Labriola 1966, pp. 126–7; Labriola 1964, p. 93.
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For example, Thomas 2009, pp. 21–2, 250, 260–1, 342–43.
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Q10.II, §24, 1263.
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Q11, §12, 1378; Gramsci 1971, p. 326.
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Gramsci 1971, pp. 330–1.
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Cf. Hall 1988, p. 56, as well as Projekt Ideologietheorie 1980, p. 37 (Projekt Ideologietheorie 2007, pp. 57–8).
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Luxemburg 1970–5a, p. 373.
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Haug 2007, p. 82.
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Haug 2007, pp. 84, 171 et sqq.
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Haug 2007, p. 180.
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Weiss 1981, p. 608.
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Thomas 2009, p. 198.
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Thomas 2009, p. 213.
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Thomas 2009, p. 235; cf. Q13, §18.
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Lenin 1960–70a, p. 151.
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Gramsci 1971, pp. 441, 445; Q11, §17, 1412, 1415; cf. §37, 1455 et sqq.
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Lenin 1960–70b, p. 375; cf. p. 422.
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64
Cf. Lih 2005, pp. 637, 645–6, 655–6.
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Lenin 1960–70c, p. 605.
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Gramsci 1971, p. 189; cf. Q13, §36.
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For example, Thomas 2009, pp. 6, 9, 108, 292.
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74
Althusser and Balibar 2009, pp. 149–50, 153–4.
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Philosophy of Praxis, Ideology-Critique, and the Relevance of a ‘Luxemburg-Gramsci Line’
In: Historical MaterialismAfter highlighting the philological and theoretical fortes of Peter Thomas’s The Gramscian Moment, the intervention questions his assumption of Gramsci’s allegedly ‘neutral’ concept of ideology. This interpretation is one-sided in that it leaves out the ideology-critique adopted via Labriola and practised throughout Gramsci’s work. Gramsci’s perspective of rendering people’s common sense more coherent opens up a more democratic perspective than Kautsky’s and Lenin’s notion that socialist class-consciousness is to be brought ‘from without’. The intervention argues that the reconstruction of a ‘Luxemburg-Gramsci line’ is of importance for today’s debates and struggles.
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