The Gramsci Factor

www.chuckmorse.com ^ | September 21, 2002 | Chuck Morse

[Noumenon]

Virtually no one gets this. Anyone who cares to think it through understands that this is the struggle of our times.

If anyone wonders why our alleged 'leaders' continue their march of folly, the answer lies here. The current 'war on terror' is just a sideshow.

If anyone bothers to wonder at the source of the pacifism and sheepery preached from the pulpits every lamestream religious entity, look no further.

If anyone wonders why the end products of our educational institutions are fit for little more than servitude, here's the source.

And if anyone wonders how this state of affairs could possibly be turned around, the answer is the stuff of nightmares.

[Slingshot]

Wow! Excellant and right on target.

[lavrenti]

Oh well and good, if Chuck had actually read as much Gramsci as I have.

If anything, one can learn that the centrality of "culture" trumps "race," "class" and "sex" in political debate. Gramsci is correct in his historical analysis of the problems facing his time and nation (Mussolini's Italy). He learned about the American mode of economic and cultural production (except for the Caribbean Trotskyist CLR James) like no other European thinker of that time—and from a jail cell.

I think it would be helpful to read him, and contemporanious conservative thinkers such as Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca to get a better understanding of what the elites have had in store for us and our children. It is criminally foolish to dismiss Gramsci's Marxism as another vicious ontological savagery.

Luckily, the American Left has dropped the ball regarding Gramsci, influenced instead by the obtuse ramblings of the adherants of the Frankfurt School. We can use the little Albanian's smuggled notebooks as battering rams against the domination of PC Stalinism.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

ping to a fellow Gramsciophile.

[GeekDejure]

IMHO . . . it is likely too late to reverse the trend . . . considering the present young generation of blithering idiots who will eventually be in control of the U.S., states and local governments !!!

May God help us . . . then again, considering what truly evil creatures we have become, why would He even consider it???

[Havisham]

I believe the last big Gramsci thread was about two years ago.

[Havisham]

Virtually no one gets this. Anyone who cares to think it through understands that this is the struggle of our times.

I'm sure you don't mean to sound full of yourself.

[nunya bidness]

Some get it. It's just that many more who do aren't here anymore.

It's sad really.

[Havisham]

The Gramscian actually believes that he is morally obligated, based on an overarching sense of superiority, to control others and enforce change.

You don't get the irony do you?

[Black Agnes]

Gramsci ping!

[Havisham]

Of course, it's all true but these are not new revelations. Phyllis Schlafly and conservative Catholic intellectuals, among others I suppose, have been writing about little else for years now.

[Askel5]

You can find what links of theirs still exist in the comments section of this article: "Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education"

[2sheep]

 ANTONIO GRAMSCI, 1891-1937 - The New Order

 Tocqueville vs. Gramsci: Transmit Or Transform; That Is The Question

 Buchanan Links Decline of West to Gramsci (Review of Death of the West)

 WWGD? (What Would Gramsci Do?)

 Gramsci vs. Tocqueville or Marxism vs. the American Ideology

 Gramsci Lives

 The Meaning of "Original Sin" - re Gramsci

 Toward the Total State by William Norman Grigg - re Gramsci

 Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
 
 Historical Illiteracy and Gramsci...loss of cultural heritage

 The Gramscian Roots of America's Culture War

[nunya bidness]

Woke you up huh? Bookmarked.

[Askel5]

Isn't everyone plagued by night terrors at the mere mention of the Great Synthesist's name?

[Askel5]

Speaking of bad dreams ... thanks for the links.

[nunya bidness]

Naw. Mine are more the hook the fish and run out of line variety.

But I "feel your pain."

[oceanperch]

bump

[Cacique]

Antonio Gramsci was not an Albanian. He was born in Ales on the Island of Sardinia. It is located at the center of the Island on the Western side.

Sardinia produced quite a number of the leaders of the Italian Communist party, including Enrico Berlinguer who was born in Porto Torres.

Incidentally, is Levrenti in honor of Levrenti Beria? Stalin's loyad head of the NKVD?