[manfromlamancha]

These guys want to destroy your nation...

[golder]

Very good, very fast work. Some of you FR people amaze me! An hour ago I couldn't tell you the difference between Gramsci and Fettuccine.

I can say that, I'm Italian. Maybe that's the problem.

[martian_22]

The philosophy of arrogant murderers...."progressive" minds and such.

BTTT!

[AAABEST]

Gramsci was a brilliant thinker and found the key to the implementation of Marxism. Without him, Marxism would be in the dung heap of history where it belongs. His writings are the bible of the leftist intellectual elites.

He is why we don't see communists calling themselves communists anymore. They don't have to when they can work their magic within unions, environmental groups, government and "civic" organizations etc.

He is why capitalist stalwarts like the CEO of of Intel, Ted Turner and George Soros are working toward turning our country into a socialist s**tpit. He is why the kid in the green shirt going door-to-door collecting money for the enviro-barons is completely unaware that he/she is diligently working for agenda 21 and the wildlands project.

In the case of the Intel CEO it's what he coined as "hegemony". In the case of the kid in the green shirt, he/she was inspired and put to work by what Gramsci coined as the "organic intellectual".

We all need to read and understand his tactics, if for nothing else, to have an understanding of the enemy. Leaving aside the treacherous ends of his means, his writings are a true how-to tactical manual on how to implement social revolution.

Bottom line is he had a major hatred of the "establishment" (probably due to his handicap and the abuse he suffered at the hands of the fascists) and had a brilliant plan on how to destroy it.

The left is now the establishment. It's up to us to tear it down. Hate to say this but I've learned to respect a good enemy, and this man was a true (albeit misguided) genius.

[nutmeg]

Bump to read later

[virgil]

Apparently Hitler and Mussolini borrowed ideas from this Gramsci too, via Albert Speer and Herman Goebbels. The entire ideology of Communism and its variants are flawed. It would take a massive propaganda campaign to do this. Throw away your television...that is the medium for their plans. People who think like this are dinosaurs. They haven't caught on to the fact that communism doesn't work.

[dennisw]

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[dennisw]

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[sheik yerbouty]

It's time the left got its comeuppance.

[anatolfz]

Oh yes! Good to have this exposed again. I keep running into lefties who pretend not to have known this.

[Wonder Warthog]

Bump for later.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post.

[metesky]

The Gramsci Factor

Free Republic thread with many Gramsci links.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is a new piece to me .... might be to others.

[Veto!]

Thanks. You might also be interested in lenghthy, related testimony to House Ways and Means Committe by Bill Wood:

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954&keywords=

[Darnright]

"By hegemony, Gramsci meant the permeation throughout society of an entire system of values, attitudes, beliefs and morality that has the effect of supporting the status quo in power relations. Hegemony in this sense might be defined as an 'organising principle' that is diffused by the process of socialisation into every area of daily life. To the extent that this prevailing consciousness is internalised by the population it becomes part of what is generally called 'common sense' so that the philosophy, culture and morality of the ruling elite comes to appear as the natural order of things."

We see Gramsci's principles in action daily. Look at the incremental changes in American thought that have already taken place. Some are good, others, harmful. Just look at the ACLU's constant assault on public recognition of everything to do with Christmas.