Doğan, Sevgi
On the Intellectual Movement in Turkey through Gramsci and Luxemburg
El movimiento intelectual en Turquía a través de Gramsci y Luxemburgo
is part of Gramsci, la democracia entre América Latina y Europa
, 6
, 11
, 2017
A petition signed by Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals
denouncing the attacks in South East of Turkey and demanding a
return to peace allows to question how this intellectual movement can
be evaluated as a political action and/or a form of resistance. Here I will
try to analyze it from two different aspects: 1) the role of intellectuals
leading social change; 2) the form of this movement. The first aspect
is associated with the relation of theory to praxis. The questions are:
is the role of intellectuals in society only educative or pedagogical? Or
can they also play the role of directors, organizers, and illuminators of
larger groups? Regarding the second aspect, which brings us to the form
of resistance, we should ask whether the movement led by this petition
is spontaneous or organizational. For this purpose, firstly, I will use
Antonio Gramsci's theory of intellectuals. In the Prison Notebooks.
Gramsci considers the problem not only as a cultural problem but as
one directly linked to the concept of hegemony, praxis, and ideology.
I will concentrate on some paragraphs in his fourth (§ 33, §49, §51),
twelfth (§1, §3), and eleventh (§12) Notebooks. Secondly, I will try to
analyze this movement through Luxemburg's concept of spontaneity
and her understanding of consciousness especially by the use of Mass
Strike and Stagnation and Progress of Marxism.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Doğan, Sevgi |
| Subjects |
Praxis
Egemonia
Praxis
hegemony |
