[Noumenon]

Agreed - without actually having read any of Gransci's works, one is reduced to second-hand name-calling. I'm not entirely sure that the Left has dropped the ball - they're well entrenched in the most sensitive and vulnerable institutions there are - our universities, high schools and elementary schools.

The only problem with using Gramsci's techniques is that, at their core, they are predicated upon lies and deceit. And the object of Gramsci's praxis was the acquisition, retention and exercise of absolute power. As fallible human beings, we're all prone to the siren call of power.

[firebrand]

Surely it's not mendacious and deceitful to try to retake these institutions and return them to honest study.