Excerpt: GRECE: The Pole of Counter-Hegemony and the Intellectual Pact with Labour
from the book, A Theory of Europe by Daria Platonova Dugina

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Critiquing the narrow, typically Marxist materialist interpretation of Labour, the New Right reconceptualized the very core of Labour and thus turned an exclusively materialistic phenomenon into an existential category. Labour, along with its bearer, the Worker (Jünger’s Der Arbeiter).

Having attentively studied Gramsci’s ideas (in 1981 they held a congress devoted to “Gramscianism from the right”), the Nouvelle Droite concluded an intellectual pact with Labour, with Anti-Capital.

by rejecting hegemony and choosing Labour, he becomes a gravedigger of hegemony and a source of vital force for revolution.

bourgeois consciousness, to which class they might not necessarily belong in economic terms). It is through this pact that intellectuals’ relation to hegemony is defined. When taking the side of hegemony, the organic intellectual swears allegiance to Capital;

(those who justify the status quo and accept the rules of hegemony) and organic intellectuals. The latter consciously conclude a pact either with Labour (whereupon they take the side of Workers) or with Capital (whereupon they become defenders of the bourgeois system and bearers of

exerts greater and more tangible influence on politics than the forces or means of production. Hence, revolutions take place through the sphere of culture, not through changes in the balance of the base. Gramsci drew a distinction between “traditional” (or “conventional”) intellectuals

Gramsci’s doctrine is of interest in that it breaks with classical Marxism by rejecting the absolute determinacy of economic processes over political ones. For Gramsci, culture (the sphere of civil society and intellectuals)

To use the terminology of the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, the ensemble of GRECE’s intellectuals undertook to create a pole of counter-hegemony, and in so doing they concluded an historic pact with Labour against Capital.

If there’s no portrait, there’s no dweller, only an empty space — it doesn’t matter if it has posts, money, success, or nothing of the sort.”