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This is a list from September. Just a nudge to those who know which way the blind take to avoid the news.
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What is authentic in Gramsci’s historicism is the affirmation of the political nature of philosophy, the thesis of the historical character of social formations (and of the modes of production of which they are composed), the correlative thesis of the possibility of revolution, the demand for the unification of theory and practice, etc. Why does its name, established by a long tradition, not serve to represent these realities? On the contrary, if we persist in wanting to “save” what is authentic in Gramsci’s historicism, we must avoid at all costs any compromise (and the very use of the word constantly itself invites compromise) with (bourgeois) relativist ideologies of knowledge that are thought to account for an objective theoretical content ( true scientific knowledge or a correct philosophical thesis) by reducing it exclusively to its “historical” conditions.
The history of these theoretical (that is, scientific and philosophical in the strict sense of these terms) contents is undoubtedly a history. But:
1. This history cannot be conceived as a simple empirical process recorded in chronological form. It is necessary to think it within the theoretical concepts of the Marxist science of history.
2. It is a history sui generis that, despite the fact that it is inscribed in the history of social formations and is articulated on the basis of this history (which in general is what is meant by the word “history”), is not reducible, purely and simply, to this history, even if it is conceived outside of any empiricism and within the theoretical concepts of the Marxist science of history.
But the very mention of these essential distinctions directs us once again to the interpretation of Marxism and to Gramsci, among others. We might suspect that on this point as well, by which I mean on the way the nature of the Marxist science of history (in its difference with Marxist philosophy) is conceptualized, Gramsci’s errors concerning the sciences and philosophy (and his silence with regard to the relation between philosophy and the sciences), are not without theoretical and practical consequences.
I hope that I will have a chance at some point to speak at greater length on this topic. But I am extremely happy that our Italian comrades who know not only Gramsci’s abstract theory, but his concrete thought as well, will for their part contribute to a process of reflection whose importance cannot pass unnoticed.
Fraternally yours,
L. Althusser