Karl Marx Notion Of Ideologies

Karl Marx Notion Of IdeologiesThis paper circumstantially explores how Antonio Gramsci builds on Karl Marxs nonion of policy-making orientation. It also comp atomic number 18s Antonio Gramsci and goo weber with regard to class, condition and governmental cleavey. The paper is organized on the major aspects and deficiencies of bolshy political orientation which Gramsci builds on and as much(prenominal), how Gramsci builds on red ink political orientation is based on ideological basis, hegemony, historicism, class differences, historicism, sensibleistic conjecture of register and its thoughts, Economic determinism, dialectical views, world and modernity. The last sections of this paper rivet on Gramsci and Weber with regard to class, status and political party.Antonio Gramsci work of the nineteenth century to a life-size extent was build on bolshie thinking ab expose ideology and consciousness as it gave ideology (initially real by Karl Marx ) a more active role in tarradiddle and politics than in classical historic materialism. match to Gramsci, the proletariat is able to twist impairment of its consciousness resulting in an extended struggle mingled with bourgeoisie and proletariat regarding how the existing loving reality is represented. He continues to purport that the bourgeoisie in general exercises hegemony over the terms of ideology by dint of its control of the consciousness and its instruments. However, agree to Gramsci, the proletariat is able to exert its influence with cultural institutions initially citeed above thus introducing major changes in classical ideological theories by denial of the subordinate class which is comp bed to the passive voice tool of dominant ideology.Gramsci uses the concept of hegemony which was previously used by rednesss to taper the political influences of the working class in a democratic diversity. He develops this concept into an acute analysis to explain the reason for the col lective revolution predicted by orthodox Marxism not having occurred by the early 20th century. By developing on the red inks concept, he suggests that capitalism remained entrenched than ever and it hold control ideologically through and through a hegemonic culture and through violence, political and economic compulsion. consequently check to Gramsci, when a culture develops in which Marxists owners of the center of employment identified their own good with the good of the bourgeoisie, and accelerated the maintenance of the status quo which Marxists attri moreovere to class differences.Gramscis further builds on Marxists ideology of class differences by suggesting that for any aspiring class to dominate in modernism it has to go beyond its own economic-corporate interests, to exert intellectual and moral leadership, and to make alliances and compromises with a variety of forces, which he refers to as a historic bloc which forms the determiner to a particular social order that produces and re-produces the hegemony of the dominant class. This is make on Marxist ideology on the materialistic theory of narrative concept of transaction of output signal in which he points out that the non owners of the means of production in order to produce a means of livelihood facilitate the economic dominance of the dominating class further creating class differences in society (p.33).Like Karl Marx, Gramsci was an ardent proponent of historicism. Gramscis view like Marxs points out that all meaning derives from the relation among hu part practical activities of which part is historical and social processes which be objective. He further builds on Marxs ideology by asserting that Ideas cannot be understood outside their social and historical context, apart from their function and origin. gibe to Gramsci, the basis of organization of knowledge of the homo is not primarily derived from peoples relationship to things but between the social relations between the users of such concepts whence the issue of unchanging human spirit does not occur. He suggests that philosophy and science dont portray independence of man in reality but argon only reliable if they extinguish the real development trends of a given historical situation. This is further elucidated by the fact of Gramsci belief that Marxism was rightful socio-pragmatically because by articulating the class consciousness of the proletariat, it highlighted the truth of tits times better than any former(a) theory.While criticizing Marxist capitalistic forces of production, Gramsci builds his purpose by claiming that the revolution in Russia had made the idea of socialist revolution awaiting the full development of capitalist forces of production invalid and he suggests that the primacy of the forces of production according to Marxists was a misconception because some(prenominal) economic and cultural changes are expressions of the basic historical process and none has primacy over the other. Thitherfore according to Gramsci, Marxism is a philosophy of praxis, and it cant depnd on historical laws which are not seen as the agents of social change.Gramscis inspiration is derived from Marx, but he expresses disagreement with Marxs focalisation on economic importance. According to Marx, the economy was predetermined through autobiography and is a determinant of the rest of society (economic determinism) Building on this, Gramsci sawing machine that the depiction of the superstructure ( complaisant society), focused only on the economy and did not mention cultural farming as an important operator and is therefore heedless that culture has the ability to effect change. While Marx withheld negative perception that ideology was a distortion of what people perceive as reality that is achieved through the ruling classs ability who make their interests appear to be the interests of everyone, Gramsci, on the other hand, perceives ideology positively, and acknowledg es many groups in society despite those based in class which compete with each other and have different perspectives. He calls the winning of consent as hegemony which operates through sustained reproduction of ideology over a period of time till the perspectives of dominant groups are sensed to be decriminalise and incase of absence of consent, it is through coercion to enforce dominance. According to Gramsci, consent is achieved through civil society (family, church, education system, and media).Marxs ideological concept regarding ideology was epistemological as it pointed out that ideology opposed knowledge which was grounded ion science and reasoning. According to Gramsci, people have 2 theoretical consciousnesses one which is implicit in activity and another which is superficially explicit or verbal which is uncritically absorbed from the past.A large number of Gramscis theoretical concerns are almost similar and therefore built on the general questions of ideology and Marx ist aesthetics, particularly because they have been highlighted as a result of the work of George Lukcs, one of the major proponents in the realism/modernism debate who is also a major Marxist aesthetician. For example, Gramsci builds on the way which Lukcs aesthetically and culturally confronted the immediate advent of fascism (Holub Renate, p.3).According to Holub Renate (3), Gramsci builds on and exceeds many concerns of received Marxism when he relates realism and modernism problems to transformations in geomorphological modern world, examines phenomena connect to effect and production of industrialization referable to culture, studies production of significance in linguistic and phenomenological framework which anticipates a thumping of structural linguistics and a kind of a phenomenological critical theory , carries out a critical practice which is suggestive in terms of contemporary critical theory in terms of differential pragmatics.Holub Renate, (p. 6) suggests that Gra msci builds on Marx ideology by rethinking and Reconsidering Marxist theory and strategy with reference from dialectic questions to ideological theories, culture and the state. He further suggests that the rethinking of formidable occurrences in history resulted to key notions (political and civil society, hegemony, counter-hegemony his idea of the intellectual/organic intellectual) universe conceptualized and such notions were later associated with him.In Gramscis concept of the intellectual, as perceived by Holub Renate Gramsci conceptualizes tell reproduction and dissemination of an effective hegemony, and collaborates in the Marxist intellectuals theoretical determine hence using this approach, Gramsci builds on Marxist ideology. Additionally, Holub Renate (11) refers to Marxis text as existence representative, along with those of Korsch and Lukcs, of early western Marxism.Gramscis further builds on Marx ideology regarding his treatment of realism in the context of Marxist aesthetics. Though Gramsci does not carry on some theoretical assumptions with Lukacs, his texts evolve against a background or a structure of concerns which he has in common with Lukcs (12), who is an ardent Marxist aesthetician. Again, the way in which Gramscis work displays its theory is homologous to many crucial twentieth-century Marxist ways of theorizing for example when he relates realism and modernism problems to structural al transformations of the modern life world. He also builds on Lukcs work of cultural-aesthetic confrontation of the immediate advent of fascism and according to Holub Renate (15) he replays the realist/modernist drama, enacted by Lukcs a Marxist Aeathetecian on the one hand and by supporters of modernism on the other hand his mode of approaching the problems of modernism and modernity, his way of posing questions and problematizing issues of technologization, is similar to Marxist approach and therefore he builds on the ideology of Marxism.Holub Rena te views Gramscis analysis of modernisms cultural problems, reflections on an anticipatory aesthesia to very complex socio-cultural transformations and flexibility in ad merelying previous concepts (by Marxists and other sociologists) as a building block in his new experiments and inventions so as to grasp new political and social realities .according to Holub Renate in his writings just about Gramsci ideology, he confesses that he finds it difficult to separate Gramsci from the Marxist crowd in order to exclusively identify him with the German critical theory of the nineteenth century possibly as his work is built on the Marxist perception.Holub Renate further suggests that Marxist intellectuals are interested in literary problems, but Gramsci refused to perceive literature as unrelated to social life and political activity. So when Gramsci re-examined the significance of literature and how it is related to politics i.e. the failed revolution on one hand and fascism on the other, he builds on basic expound of Marxist aesthetics which states problems of culture are not separable from the realm of politics and hence production and circulation of cultural goods e.g. literature are related to production and circulation of political, ethical and moral values and norms.Gramscis thoughts in most cases are homologous or built on the critical theories of modernism and therefore there are multiple relations between his thinking and mingled other forms of critical theory forms of critical theory an example cosmos neo-Marxism, Marxist linguistics, Frankfurt School modernism and critical phenomenology.Gramscis analyses relations of military force and function performed by intellectual activities in the course of these relations and he builds on this to formulate the intellectual theory with models such as the conventional intellectual artist, philosopher and poet, structure of feeling, intellectual community The organic intellectual the critical specialist the uni versal intellectual.Therefore, these models incorporate instances of big businessman and is therefore built on a Marxist account and idealism of social function and responsibilities of the undividedas it outlines the non neutrality of knowledge and ideas and partiality of the producers and disseminators of knowledge therefore the political trigger of the intellectual that inscribes power and domination (i.e. social classes having owners and non owners of the means of production according to Karl marx). Therefore Gramsci by deriving the intellectual models was primarily focusing on a determinate body of knowledge which is depicted in Marx and Engels writings as well as in the anti-Marxist writings of philosophers of the twentieth century Italian cultural history e.g. Benedetto Croce. According to Holub Renate, he terms Gramcis work as as aesthetic fragments under the general heading of Marxism and literature, therefore portraying the notion that Gramscis work is a fragment of Mar xism or is derived from Marxist ideology.Gramsci builds on Marxist ideology by deploying his skills to attempt to amend Marxist theories where they are most deficient and vulnerable (39) e.g. by relating superstructure to Marxs infrastructure which changes the perception of Marxs forces of production and relations of production as world the major concepts of materialistic history of theory. Therefore Gramsci derives and build on Lukacs definitive Marxist aesthetics and ideology by organizing his work around a cultural and political reexamine in his philosophy of praxis.Gramsci builds on the deficiency of Marxist ideology in exploring the ways that the superstructure, its culture, politics and ideology are linked to the base, and by exploring the some(prenominal) ways which the state, culture and politics result in production of ideology, power and authority. His unrelenting interest in the realm of the superstructure unlike the base was just an attempt to build on Marxist ideolog y by attempting to fructify Marxist theory in the areas which it looked very deficient.According to Holub Renate (42), he argues that Gramsci built on Marxist dialectic on superstructure as he was a student and proponent of the work of Antonio Labriola who was an Italian Marxist who opted for a Hegelian basis of interpreting Marx dialectic amidst the theoreticians of the second international. He further strengthens his argument that Marxist aesthetics, particularly in the Lukcsian version, tended to ignore new cultural formations when amount art against a new set of aesthetics. Gramsci does both and more (48).Gramscis ideology had a different view of Marxist historical materialism which he saw as infantilism. According to him, political acts were an organisational matter which facilitated party, group and social coherence. These parallels are eminent with Webers status groups, though Weber criticizes the economism of certain aspects of historical materialism which he highlighted in his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. On the other hand, Gramscis thoughts were anti-economist, but relied liberalism that claimed that the economy was a pure determinant of socio-political relations. His education suggests that in certain ways, Gramcis perceptions are in agreement with Webers anti-positivism which gives the suggestion that both Weber and Gramcis works criticised both Marxist and liberal economism and positivism. The most pararrelism between Weber and Gramsci emanates from Weberian views on case-by-case action. Regarding this concept, Weber perceives collectivities to be results of certain individual acts man Gramsci on the other hand perceives a collective forget embodied in the party. According to Weber inexorable social forces were not a causative factor of conduct and Weber seems to disagree with Gramscis hegemony though Weber agrees that actors are sometimes unconscious with their actions.Weber perceives collectivities as being conceptual ab stractions, but he is unable to account for structural inequalities, age Gramscis State and party can be perceived as ideal-type constructs according to his perspective of class of class action. Thus on several aspects, Gramsci accounts for deficiencies in Webers account on both bourgeois and proletarian classes unlike the individual. According to Weber class is heterogeneous in collective action and it is through status groups that the means for Gramcis hegemony are portrayed and the difference according to Weber is one of interpretation as was not convinced that values or ideology could result in a difference in realities of social structure at a bureaucratic stage. Gramcis ideology dominated and it is here that Gramsci and Weber agree.According to Gramscis philosophy of praxis, ideologies are arbitrary and must be combated for reasons of political struggle so as to make the governed to feel intellectually independent (Gramsci, 1988 196). This is built on Webers argument of colle ctivities being results of the sum of individual actions. Gramsci continues to build on these ideas by defending ideology as being a social fact, hence he states thatTo reinforce the conception of historical bloc in which precisely material forces are the content and ideologies are the form, though this distinction between form and content has purely indicative mood value, since the material forces would be inconceivable historically without form and the individual fancies without the material forces. (Gramsci, 1988 200).ConclusionGramsci explores factors which might play a role in sensational historical change as he (Gramsci) shifts his attention away from the material, economic and objective factor of Marx dialectic to the theoretical, subjective or supernatural factor and Holub Renate calls this shift as the beginning of western Marxism (50) because on the basis of Marxist paradigm contexts, Gramsci develops interest in understanding the complexity of the real of the super-struc tural while relating it to the economic basis There are crossovers in Weberian perception of legitimate domination and Gramscis imposed hegemony as they are both dependent on concept and Max Weber admits that the aspect of legitimacy has to be perceived in the same way as Gramscis hegemony. Does it mean that they shared a similar methodology? This question arises since they were both anti-economist and to some degree anti-positivistic. life-sustaining analysis of their views makes one wonder whether Gramsci knew effects of Weberian status groups in civil society as he took the hegemonistic idea above the basis of economicism point though domination according to Gramsci was based on class.