Italian intellectual and political activist, founder of the Communist Party (Ales, Sardinia, 1891 - Rome, 1937). Thanks to the support of his brother and his intellectual capacity he overcame the difficulties produced by his physical deformity (he was hunchbacked) and by the poverty of his family (since his father was imprisoned, accused of embezzlement). He studied at the University of Turin, where he was influenced intellectually by Benedetto Croce and the socialists.
In 1913 he joined the Italian Socialist Party, immediately becoming a leader of its left wing. After working on various party periodicals, he founded, together with Palmiro Togliatti and Umberto Elia Terracini, the magazine Ordine nuovo (1919). Faced with the dilemma posed to socialists around the world by the course taken by the Russian Revolution, Antonio Gramsci chose to adhere to the communist line and, at the Livorno Congress (1921), split with the group that founded the Italian Communist Party.
Gramsci belonged from the beginning to the Central Committee of the new party, which he also represented in Moscow within the Third International (1922); he endowed the formation with an official press organ (L'Unità, 1924) and represented it as a deputy (1924). He was a member of the Executive of the Communist International, whose Bolshevik orthodoxy he defended in Italy by expelling from the party the ultra-left group of Amadeo Bordiga, which he accused of following Trotsky's line (1926).
He soon had to go underground, since since 1922 Italy was under the power of Mussolini, who would exercise from 1925 an iron fascist dictatorship. Gramsci was arrested in 1926 and spent the rest of his life in prison, subjected to humiliation and ill-treatment, which added to his tuberculosis to make prison life extremely difficult, until he died of cerebral congestion.
In these conditions, however, Gramsci was able to produce a great written work (the voluminous Prison Notebooks), containing an original revision of Marx's thought, in a historicist sense and tending to modernize the legacy of Marxism to adapt it to the conditions of Italy and twentieth-century Europe. Already at the Lyon Congress (1926) he had advocated the broadening of the social bases of communism by opening it to all classes of workers, including intellectuals. His theoretical contributions would powerfully influence the adaptation of Western communism that took place in the sixties and seventies, the so-called Eurocommunism. 🤮
Gramsci’s concept of hegemony. Gramsci saw the ruling class maintaining its power over society in two ways –
Coercion – it uses the army, police, prison and courts to force other classes to accept its rule
Consent (hegemony) – it uses ideas and values to persuade the subordinate classes that its rule is legitimate
Hegemony and Revolution
In advanced Capitalist societies, the ruling class rely heavily on consent to maintain their rule. Gramsci agrees with Marx that they are able to maintain consent because they control institutions such as religion, the media and the education system. However, according to Gramsci, the hegemony of the ruling class is never complete, for two reasons:
The ruling class are a minority – and as such they need to make ideological compromises with the middle classes in order to maintain power The proletariat have dual consciousness. Their ideas are influenced not only by bourgeois ideology but also by the material conditions of their life – in short, they are aware of their exploitation and are capable or seeing through the dominant ideology.
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Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Revolution :anti-italian-action: cw: trots
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So I knew Metal Gear Solid was supposed to be weird and over-the-top, but I did not expect it to be "press r1 to look at her breasts," "two uninterrupted minutes of gun twirling," and "I am the hornet man, my special ability is hornets" level weird within the first few hours.
Went a long masked walk with 3 homies who all work in public schools.
We had a convo about how the "return to normal" shit is just shallow consumerism and the real fun shit that took place in those contexts like socializing can easily occur with COVID safety measures as well outside consumerists settings.
It was a really fun walk. Nice to touch grass in a COVID-safe manner.
Browsing the news this morning.
Joe Biden just committed suicide
:cereal2: WHAT. I read it again.
Joe Biden just committed political suicide :cowboy-cri:
Literally worse than those fellas that fake post that Kissinger is dead.
Joe Biden commits political suicide by not adding the extra Y to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's name.
Literally worse than those fellas that fake post that Kissinger is dead.
This is why ifgehrehnenyissponde was banned and is posting about being sad they can't post in the mega.
Today's lesson is: don't fake post about Kissinger dying
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html
One of my dad's last living friends died and his kids wouldn't even fly out to clean his condo.
They are selling it as is and just pocketing the money from the estate sale. Hit my dad hard.
Stop using TERF to describe conservative transphobia, a rural right wing Catholic woman who thinks women exist only to please men is not a TERF, they are just a normal conservative bigot
Colonscopy prep started 💚 you think in the 10 years I've been doing this they'd find a way to make the laxatives taste different than whats coming out the other end. Makes my fucking stomach turn
Good news: job interview on tuesday that pays 2.5x as much as ive ever earned before
I love articles that are like "These refugees fled to Russia and the mean Soviets sent them to Siberia!"
Like bro everything that wasn't Siberia was overrun by Nazis. North of a million civilians starved in Leningrad and Stalingrad during the sieges. The rest of Europe was in Nazi hands. And no one else would accept refugees. What exactly the fuck do you want?
About a week and a half ago the convenience store near got robbed for cash/cigs/cigars/etc. According to the clerks they got the guy. But did not recover anything besides some of the cash. Obviously this means one of two things. Homie ditched a bunch of loot or the pigs helped themselves.
Everything is melting around here so I decided to take a walk around and see if I could find any loot. I head to the store and about 10-15 feet into my adventure I see something. A carton of smokes ... 2 of them ... 1 carton of Colt cigars, a box of bigger cigars and a pouch full of change. (~$500 I would guess)
The cops must have not even went behind the store. where the guy ran too. Before it snowed last week you would have seen something from the back corner of the store.
Like what the fuck do the cops even do ?
I gave the store back everything but the bigger cigars. I am going to get drunk and pretend I am :fidel-cool: tonight. :sicko-yes:
The store owner wanted my phone number to give to the cops just in case they have any questions.
:fidel-wut:
lol no.
Wonder if CVS will realize that if they lock everything up in store people are just gonna go somewhere else lmfao