AYN RAND’S AND ANTONIO GRAMSCI’S THEORIES ON SOCIAL RELATIONS OF POWER—DISCUSSING THE SIMILARITIES
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Marxism; Libertarianism; dialecticsAbstract
This paper focuses on the methodological similarities between Antonio Gramsci and Ayn Rand in their interpretation of social relations of power. Libertarianism and Marxism are considered to be mutually exclusive, because of how the political spectrum is polarized. In his book Marx, Hayek, And Utopia (1995), Chris Matthew Sciabarra questions whether these ideologies really are mutually exclusive, positing that both Marx and Hayek, despite their differences, coalesce in the use of dialectics. Following the same logic, this paper attempts to shed light on a number of ways in which Rand and Gramsci crisscross—despite distinction in emphasis—in their interpretation of social relations of power.
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