While many Italian communists were looked down on by their more strident marxist comrades in other countries, there was one Italian who, while in prison for being a marxist, authored two volumes which in essence said, "Instead of attacking the West head-on, we need to identify and infiltrate Western institutions and culture which make her strong". Gramsci advocated a decades long assault on the traditional family unit -- feminisation of the family, homosexuality and disordered forms of sexuality, which over time led to pornography, contraception, divorce, and eventually abortion. His blueprint, in kernel form, suggested infiltrating the churches, schools and universities, media, art, and entertainment, and government institutions.
Waves of initially covert "agents of change" were sent Westward -- into the seminaries and universities, as a perverse "leaven" -- not to lift society but to degrade and weaken it. Initial agents lifted each other into rising positions of influence, identifying and recruiting allies (whether gullible or intelligent -- both could be used), and spread their ideas and recruits like mushroom spores, to any institutions they could infiltrate.
Some in the West caught on and attempted to warn and to put a stop to this -- the term McCarthyism was coined to direct ridicule, coming from Hollywood and the media, against anyone daring to call out communist sympathizers and supporters.
At present time, one could say those embracing Gramsci's strategies have succeeded, perhaps even beyond what levels they might have imagined -- the West teeters now at the precipice, the last bulwark against a worldwide onslaught of diabolical evil, seeking to enslave and control mankind.
In this great battle against the DS and their marxist battering ram, and even at this late point, it is helpful to know some of the origins of what our Western culture -- our families and institutions, have faced and are facing.
A bit of sauce:
I read gramsci and have never seen any of that: thoughtful insight into how family, property and authority mold the young into agents of the elites? Yes. Everything you said? Never in what I've read. I have The Prison Notebooks in my phone in a PDF since like 2017 and think he's brilliant and useful
Thanks for the feedback. Out of curiosity, did you ever run across this quote:
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
Do you agree that this has happened?
Nothing like that has happened at all. The opposite even; all of those things used to be private, dynastic and not primarily economic spheres and now they are all 100% owned by capitalists and openly traded in corporate markets.
Do you accept that Gramsci indeed wrote the above quote about infiltrating western institutions?
And, that there are plenty of straight up communists who do admit that is exactly what they did? I think you may even find recent comments by Putin acknowledging this effort damaged the west.
Sure and its a good and right and wise position to take; he's talking about winning an argument not starving people and brutalizing them. The Soviet union didn't even exist yet for real and the institutions cited were rotten with ridiculous fantasy and good boy authoritarian fetishism
Russian revolution had certainly occurred — predating Gramsci’s work by more than 2 decades, and this was Lenin, who presided over one of the greatest mass stavations of his own countrymen by confiscating the farms, then proceeding to also kill off the entire country’s intelligentia — not the riling class nor oppressors, but the smart Russian people, be they doctors, teachers, artists, academics, etc.
The reason this is relevant now is we have leftists in the US who want to follow the same idiodic path, and they are being used, whether they realize it or not, as tools by the nwo types to whittle down our population and weaken us as a country eniugh to be taken over and ruled by them.
You seem to be enamored of communism in the abstract, probably as one of those who says true communism is great, it just hasn’t been implemented correctly as yet. Yes?
Early Mussolini imprisoned Gramsci in the 20s man he. was locked up before they did anything except kill the monarchs and fuck them
Here is a link to national geographic article about Lenin murdering countrymen in 1920-21 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/red-terror-set-macabre-course-soviet-union
I think you are avoiding the fact that Gramsci had plenty of evidence what was afoot with communism in Russia, and yet chose to support it by his writing. Just because he may not have spelled things out in terms a first grader could follow does not exempt him from a proper assessment of his role — which as I have mentioned is admitted to by communists since then. They rightly did and do view his work as seminal to infiltrating the west — not in some abstract sense, but in fact and in reality. And the evidence of how far that corruption spread is plainly visible all around us.
I think maybe your blocked by emotionally reacting to the word religion instead of understanding it as a human and social system The Pharisee classes whose income comes from worshippers train people to defend their interests and to not look at religion as a human system It is though and should align with human goals or its just another trick of the rich
Did Gramsci write about how to subvert the west and capitalism yes or no?
I don't understand why people use the word "subvert" because I've read maybe 200 pages and it's all just analysis of the relationships between the things i said and how it makes parents make kids useful dupes of the elites who take pride in serving them.
Also capitalism lol. I mean markets and agreements are cool but to defend the capitalists is a turd move for good doggies.
You know what subvert means. Was it a yes or no? I’m not asking for your appraisal of its worthiness or otherwise, I’m asking if he wrote about how to subvert the west and capitalism.
Yes or no?
I already explained what I've read that he wrote. It's analysis of motives and behavior and their origins in relationships between political society, family hierarchy, and property. Im gonna say no. Subvert is an interpretation from reactionaries clinging to the exact programming he dissects very brilliantly, where adult workers are childish dupes seeking attaboys from the thieves and decievers who squeeze them from every angle.
Lol you could just read it, it's free and a PDF now
Subvert means to overturn the current order.
No amount of extraneous waffle will make it otherwise.
You just don’t want to admit it
Im saying i never got into any methodology Maybe it's there, i never read the whole thing but in the many chapters i did read i found no actionable advice or plan, just thoroughly intelligent analysis of class relationships and how good boy little doggies suck rulers dicks bc of their daddy issues basically.
You're living it now, the malady he diagnoses is all around you and probably also on your own personality
It is you who have been indoctrinated into an ideology.
Marxism is an extreme ideology and you have to be as an ostrich with their head in the sand not to acknowledge the massive evil it has caused in the world.
The offspring of Marxism, such as Gramscis ideas, are from the same root. Evil.
The basics are like "society is of two types: political society, which uses force to build relationships, and civil society, which uses agreements. But the violence threatened and wielded by political society is evident in the structures of civil society." Then he reflects quite insightfully on how and why
Why does Marxism ALWAYS without exception end up in slave Labour and mass death?
How do you justify that?
Because it's Statist and relies entirely on Political society and force. Read Gramsci and understand that theres also civil society and agreement. It's very compatible with Austrian economics instead of Marxist economics is what im saying. It's about the culture of the oppressed and how and why they reproduce models of their oppression in their private lives.
Again this is happening now TO YOU
Marxism is statist.
Communism is completely statist.
No one denies that the current system is amenable to abuse and that we are taken advantage of, the difference is that no one wants to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
Marxism is the fire. We would be overtly trampled underfoot, enslaved et al and you can see quite clearly that Marxism has already infiltrated its way into it institutions and continues to ideologically subvert them towards their Marxist agenda. Look at Yuri Bezmenovs lecture about how it is done. It absolutely is happening to us now - but that’s at the hands of our Marxist interlopers!
Remember, the cure can’t be worse than the disease. Marxism is much worse than capitalism and there is the benefit of a whole century of history to learn from and multiple Marxist states. You have to come to terms with the simple fact that Marxism and its branches bear rotten evil fruit. Gramsci is a Marxist. His root is from evil. His words, like the words of Marx, deceive.
For example “from each according to ability, to each according to need “.
To the unthoughtful that sounds like a description of fairness and utopia.
To the thoughtful and those with a will and ability to look at history it is clearly a call for slave labour/gulags.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Give Gramsci up - he is a disciple of one of the worlds greatest evil masterminds. He is a prophet of doom.
I think the Right in general is severely handicapped by not distinguishing between paid for "communist" agents of international finance and ideological people from basically medieval Europe who grew up seeing appalling oppression and heard it defended by retarded conservatives of their day. The latter type are misguided about human action and can be married to Mises and Rothbard and nowadays are the Jimmy Dore and anarcho socialists sort of Leftists, while the former type are just DNC fascist shills. Make the distinction people. Gramsci was the good type
Antonio Gramsci was the inspiration for Rudi Dutschkes idea of the ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ an idea which was lauded by the OG Critical Theorists themselves and whose name is an homage to Chairman Maos Long March.
Shortly after, or around the same time, a new branch of Critical Theory opened up - Critical Pedagogy - thanks to the book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by Brazilian educator Paolo Freire. His little 104 page book contains well over 200 references to revolution. Anyway, he said that the teachers role essentially was to radicalise their students such that they would recognise their oppressors and commit to lovingly overthrowing them.
His book remains one of the most widely read and most beloved texts of the social sciences and you can see his ideas in play through those Tik Tok videos of teachers boasting about their radicalisation of children and in the school board meetings etc.
We're oppressed...
Gramsci was dead for like decades by the time Mao held a gun dude
What about it?
Well your first sentence there makes it sound like he's a Maoist. It's clumsy and confusing or disingenuous fake news trickery
Don’t mistake your inability to comprehend for someone else’s trickery.
Rudy Dutschkes idea was called the “Long March Through the Institutions”
It was so-called in homage to Chairman Maos infamous Long March.
Rudi Dutschkes idea was inspired by Gramscis prison writings.
This is simple and straightforward stuff.
But then, I can’t really expect Marxist sympathises to NOT be morons.
I recall a hit piece against Ivermectin that did the same trick where they slid into poisoning by drinking bleach and then described those problems in the body. Same fake news trick. Just fucking read Gramsci dumbass, who doesn't wanna know things?
You are an idiot.
You are pretending not to understand the straightforward thing I wrote because you don’t want to address its implications