Section III: Reconstructing Power

Introduction

With truth redefined as a construct of power, the next logical step for modern thinkers was to analyze and reconstruct power itself. This section explores how intellectuals, building on the foundations of Marx, sought to move from critique to revolution.

The battlefield shifted from philosophy to politics, from metaphysics to culture. Thinkers like Gramsci and Marcuse developed strategies not just for understanding the world, but for changing it. They offered a new gospel—a gospel of revolution—that promised salvation not through divine grace, but through the overthrow of oppressive systems.

Here, we examine the intellectual architecture of modern social and political activism, and how it offers a rival eschatology to the Christian story of redemption.