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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.

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?

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.