Posted on 02/22/2024 7:16:11 AM PST by Phoenix8
There’s little debate that modern-day American universities, public education, mainstream media, Hollywood, and political advocacy groups are dominated by leftists. This is no accident, but part of a deliberate strategy to pave the way for communist revolution developed more than eight decades ago by an Italian political theorist named Antonio Gramsci.
Described as one of the world’s most important and influential Marxist theorists since Marx himself, if you are not familiar with Gramsci, you should be.
Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a “war of position” for socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside. facebook sharing button twitter sharing button flipboard sharing button reddit sharing button linkedin sharing button email sharing button The Italian communist (1891 – 1937) is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the Cultural Marxist movement in modern America.
Later dubbed by 1960s German student activist Rudi Dutschke as “the long march through the institutions,” Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a “war of position” for socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside in an attempt to compel it to redefine itself.
Gramsci used war metaphors to distinguish between a political “war of position”—which he compared to trench warfare—and the “war of movement (or maneuver),” which would be a sudden full-frontal assault resulting in complete social upheaval.
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He is basically describing what the communists in the Soviet Union did to us.
Remember the speech Putin made right after Obama was elected?
He said, "America, do not go down the road to communism, for that is what destroyed Russia".
He knew what the KGB had done to us and is afraid of communism in the USA doing the same back to Russia.
It was easy to infiltrate our universities as many "educators" tend to lean to the left anyway.
As with so many Marxists and leftists in general, Gramsci was a bitter, resentful creature and sought to take his hatred out on normal, decent people. His Albanian father was imprisoned for embezzlement. Gramsci himself had a badly twisted spine, was severely hunchbacked and suffered tuberculosis most of his life. Is it any wonder he expects the rest of us to suffer too?
The left has followed his advice of the “long march through the institutions” to a T, and it’s succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
I can’t think of a single institution that the left does not control today, and they are become more and more entrenched.
Their wishes and policies have been institutionalized at the speed of light.
As an example, just look how quickly DEI has become part of every agency, organization and corporation.
Nantzy Pelousi’s inspiration for HER brand of Italian Marxism injected into the United States her entire House “career” representing the craphole that is San Fransisco. Piles of crap and empty shell people in the formerly beautiful city by the Bay.
Gramsci is worth studying, especially since Marx plagiarized him and Marx entirely depended on his guilty captialist rich pal— Engels. Couldn’t do it without “other people’s money”. As Soros has demonstrated HIS entire life.
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I wasn’t that familiar with Gramsci until I read “Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order” by Malachi Martin in 1991. By the time I put the book down, I had come around to the view that Gramsci was the most influential people of the last 100 years... and that influence flew to a large extent under the radar but permeated much and planted the seeds for what we see today.
https://www.amazon.ca/Keys-This-Blood-Versus-Control/dp/0671747231
I write to defend Gramsci.
Not because he wasn’t a deluded communist nutcase, which he was. But because he had no or only a very minor part in what happened.
He did not inspire much, in fact. Certainly not the “long march through the institutions” - which phrase he did not actually write, that was a German communist decades later.
What he did write was a mass of stuff, in prison or in hospital, some apparently on toilet paper. This was not exactly an immediate influence, coming out only slowly in translations. The first English edition did not come out till the 1970’s.
In the meantime, the “long march” was already underway, influenced by other people, notably Marcuse and the Frankfurt institute, Foucault, Fanon, etc. At this time Gramsci was mostly unread, unless one was Italian, or sometimes German.
Gramsci’s ideas didn’t really enter the English world until Hardt & Negri’s “Empire” came out in 2000, making a big deal of “cultural hegemony”, used exactly as Gramsci did, as an obstacle to selling communism to the masses. Hardt & Negri saw the power of institutional control as an enemy, bourgeois-capitalist thing.
Since then, Gramsci’s became an explanatory model of how the LEFT had taken over institutions. Rush Limbaugh, of all people, spoke quite a bit about Gramsci’s model.
So - Gramsci did not come up with the “long march” battleplan. At best he predicted it. His model was used as an explanation for the phenomenon after the fact.
Gramsci is not popular in the left at the moment. For understandable reasons, as his “hegemony” idea is too easily turned against them.
The Cultural Left looked to Mao as an example more than anything.
Some did, especially in the third world.
But that was direct ideological influence, through example.
But not only Mao.
Ho Chih Minh was educated independently in the European communist tradition, already of long standing - he was a founding member of the French Communist party.
Pol Pot also got his start in French Communist circles, and later by serving in Ho’s Viet Minh.
“Especially since Marx plagiarized him ...”
Must have been when Gramsci was a toddler.
That’s an outstanding book and worth the time of any serious individual.
"Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a “war of position” for socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside. facebook sharing button twitter sharing button flipboard sharing button reddit sharing button linkedin sharing button email sharing button The Italian communist (1891 – 1937) is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the Cultural Marxist movement in modern America."
One thing I wonder about is if the movement is still an active one with communists? Or is it a progression of the sick, twisted philosophy on its own momentum? In other words when communism was more active (McCarthy’s time) in subversion of our educational system did the theories take hold and then just become self-perpetuating with each new generation of useful idiots? Leftist deranged Professors choosing the leftist deranged students who think like them as their replacements etc.
Or are their still communists actively spending money, undermining our systems with an active goal of our destruction. With a hierarchy of leaders giving out orders and making strategic changes as needs arise?
Following the original plans of Gramsci (or the Frankfurt school).
“and then just become self-perpetuating with each new generation of useful idiots?”
That’s how Gramsci’s theory has it. The “hegemony” is self-perpetuating.
“are their still communists actively spending money, undermining our systems with an active goal of our destruction”
There are. Not everything is completely corrupted yet. Now the final targets are engineering programs.
What we are seeing now is the fruition of Alinsky’s cultural war. Alinsky had hoped he could spark a revolution in the US in 1968 along side Mao’s revo. What Alinsky lacked was a rigid presence in local governments and institutions. His followers under the title of community organization spent the next 50 years doing just that. Bunkering in and changing local and federal policies a little bit at a time. Its no longer communism we are fighting but Alinsky Marxism and it is in every government, business and institution.
Imitation- Marx plagiarized, whatever. Gramsci is worth understanding... just how bad.
As is... Nancy Pelosi of the Italian Mafia persuasion and her old queen hammered hubby. Redistributing our wealth, to themselves and their “constituencies”. Neo Marxism. The olde Mafia would have had nothing to do with them. Strange change.
Marx died in 1883. Gramsci was born in 1891.
There may be a timeline problem with your statements.
No problem whatsoever-— both of them were Marxists. And Gramsci’s cultural Marxism palpably worse on a very personal level— clambering socialism which is pure theft. Both of them derivative “philosophers” of leftist drivel.
And here you go on f’n Marx: Marx “raised” his six children in a tiny two room flat in London, having been banished from Germany, France and Belgium for his idiotic ideas. By 1858 three of his six children had died at the very least from the poverty he self-righteously forced them to endure. His infant son Heinrich’s death he called “a sacrifice to bourgeois misery”- can one even imagine the monster this clown was? His next infant, a daughter died two years later and his wife had to borrow money for a casket. Two of his daughters of the remaining committed suicide with their husbands (one husband chickened out) and the 3rd daughter died of tuberculosis at 39 before Marx did. Marx also had an illegitimate son raised by Engels as his “son” Freddy who was the only child to see the Russian Bolshevik revolt and was a machinist (an actual working trade).
Marx was an evil domineering tyrant with terrible hygiene, who hated people, except the grand abstract “workers” (Marx never worked a day in his life sponging off Engels and eventually his Manifesto). Not human and not humane like all Communists.
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