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:
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.