This is my continuing series on the success that the DSA has recently had at the polls and the meltdown that the Right is having dealing with this success…..passing out propaganda like candy to a 6 year old and it is working…..
Gramsci? If you are not familiar with the workings of socialism then the name means little to Americans and yet the Washington Times invoked his name.
Before I go any further a quick lesson on Gramsci….
Key points:
- Historical materialism reworked
- Society is shaped by material conditions but mediated by culture, institutions, and political practice.
- Emphasis on how social forces, ideas and institutions interact over time to produce historical change.
- Hegemony
- Core concept: ruling classes secure consent for their rule by shaping common-sense beliefs, moral frameworks, and cultural norms.
- Hegemony = domination through a combination of coercion (state apparatuses, police, law) and consent (civil society: schools, churches, media, unions, cultural institutions).
- Hegemony is never absolute; it requires continual work to maintain and is always contested.
- Civil society vs. political society
- Distinction between political society (state, law, coercive institutions) and civil society (associations, culture, education, media).
- Civil society is the terrain where hegemony is produced and reproduced; control of civil society is crucial for long-term stability of a social order.
Very basic but if you want more…..https://theconversation.com/antonio-gramsci-his-philosophy-explained-286341
That out of the way this is the bullshit article that made me go to this rant….
Just another MAGA rag that spread manure like it was real…..
Personally I think Gramsci was an excellent thinker and some of his ideas deserve a second look….but think about this MAGA and the GOP have been using his concepts for many decades….so is he all that wrong?
Questions?
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