<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Örsan Şenalp</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:34 PM<br>Subject: [Networked-Labour] Ideology, Culture, and Critique of Political Economy - an historical correction<br>To: Networked Labour <<a href="mailto:networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc">networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc</a>><br></div><br><br>Below is an announcement of a historical fact with hard proof, and an<br>
essential correction with major implications for critical analysis in<br>
general.<br>
<br>
<br>
Since the 1960s and 70s Marxian thinkers came to believe that it was<br>
Gramsci who developed the first systematic ideas and concepts,<br>
building on Marx and Lenin's ideas, on the issues of ideology and<br>
culture, and developed a unique conceptualization of hegemony, as an<br>
integral part of a theory of state and civil society. The influential<br>
contributions based on Gramsci readings of Althusser, Laclau, and<br>
Mouffe, Miliband, Poulantzas, Anderson, Frankfurt School theorists,<br>
cultural studies of Stuart Hall, French post-structuralists have come<br>
to inform the most important debates on the state, classes, ideology,<br>
MNCs, social movements, new imperialism so on.<br>
<br>
However, below quotation from the preface to the English translation<br>
of the first ever Marxian Political Economy study book, by Alexander<br>
Bogdanov, shows clearly, that 30-40 years prior to Gramsci's Prison<br>
Notebooks, there emerged the first-ever systematic study of ideology,<br>
culture, and social consciousness, both as an integral analysis or<br>
critique of the political economy, and as an independent study titled:<br>
The Science of Social Consciousness. Bogdanov's conceptualization and<br>
strategy of cultural hegemony and revolution clashed with Lenin's<br>
concept and strategy of political hegemony and revolution. Anderson<br>
mistakenly identified that Lenin's conceptualization and strategy,<br>
based on political dominance as the main influence on the ideas<br>
Gramsci later developed. However, it has become obvious since the 80s<br>
that Bogdanov's work, which caused the notorious strategical rivalry<br>
with Lenin, actually was the main influence on Gramsci's thought and<br>
conceptualizations.<br>
<br>
"The chapters on ideology in this and the other courses by no means<br>
serve as supplements to the main subject. Ideology is an instrument<br>
for organizing economic life an is consequently an important condition<br>
in economic development. Only within these limits and in this<br>
connection is it touched upon here. It is dealt with independently in<br>
a special textbook "The Science of Social Consciousness" which is<br>
written in a form similar to this."<br>
<br>
<a href="https://monoskop.org/images/d/d8/Bogdanov_Alexander_A_Short_Course_of_Economics_Science.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Vb4V7K3ZTXv9wM3iQhytz_HcINx1iwnYkoUsCWxwwZYMQKD1uHMH1Y6Q" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://monoskop.org/images/d/d8/Bogdanov_Alexander_A_Short_Course_of_Economics_Science.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Vb4V7K3ZTXv9wM3iQhytz_HcINx1iwnYkoUsCWxwwZYMQKD1uHMH1Y6Q</a><br>
<br>
In solidarity,<br>
Orsan<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Networked-labour_igopnet mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc" target="_blank">Networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc</a><br>
<a href="http://grups.pangea.org/mailman/listinfo/networked-labour_igopnet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://grups.pangea.org/mailman/listinfo/networked-labour_igopnet</a><br>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br>Connect: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.ning.com" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.ning.com</a>; Discuss: <a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br><br>Updates: <a href="http://del.icio.us/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://del.icio.us/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br><br><br><br></div></div>