Planning; or marx versus lenin versus lenin

[Michael Hoover]

>    Sorel certainly had an influence on Gramsci but he also had
>    significant differences with him as well. For one thing Gramsci
>    never swallowed Sorel's Bergsonian-Nietzschean irrationalism
>    which was of course incompatible with any conception of Marxism
>    as being scientific. It might be interesting to compare Gramsci
>    in this regard with the Peruvian Marxist Jose Mariategui who
>    strike me as having been a more enthusiastic Sorelian than
>    Gramsci. 
>                    Jim Farmelant

How about Mariatequi and Gramsci on importance of culture and ideology
in class domination and on role of cultural factors in revolution?

Amilcar Cabral's thought reminds of Gramsci on such matters.  Both  
rejected notion of a simple determination of superstructure by 
economic factors and indicated ways in which state ideological
apparatus operated with relative autonomy.  Each stressed need for
revolutionary classes to break cultural and ideological hegemony of
existing ruling classes before seeking to seize state power.  In a
variety of ways, Cabral's analysis runs parallel to Gramsci's,
including their examining the role of intellectuals.   Michael Hoover