Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
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...My use of the term ‘ideology’ is not in the Marxian sense of ‘false consciousness’ but in the sense used within the Gramscian current of analysis that sees ideology as an action-oriented system of values and beliefs that allows different groups to make sense of the world (Gramsci 1973)....
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...The ‘people’ is an “amorphous” mass (Gramsci 1973, 72) that has often been reduced to passivity throughout history, and whose activation and mobilisation constitute a fundamental challenge for emancipatory politics....
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...…crisis, social media, and the valuing of participation attached to them, have come to offer protest movements and emerging parties a powerful channel through which to construct new forms of engagement with that “amorphous” (Gramsci 1973) social base that goes under the name of the ‘people.’...
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...(Femia, 1988, p. 43, citing Gramsci, 1971) While Gramsci sees people’s actions as evidence of the underlying conception of the world pertaining to their social group, the apparent contradiction expressed in their words emanates from influences coming from outside the group, as he proposes: ‘for…...
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...…expressed in their words emanates from influences coming from outside the group, as he proposes: ‘for reasons of submission and intellectual subordination, [the group] has adopted a conception which is not its own but is borrowed from another group’ (Femia, 1988, p. 43, citing Gramsci, 1971)....
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