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    20 days ago

    Gramsci can be quite thought provoking but sometimes one has to undo the western marxist baggage (though that is not necessarily applicable here).

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      Honestly im shocked Gramsci is popular with bourgeois socialist types. I mean, I really can’t see how you could apply most, if not all, of his ideas without being not only a Marxist, but a Leninist too.

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        Honestly im shocked Gramsci is popular with bourgeois socialist types.

        His work has often been re-interpreted to put undue weight on the superstructure over the base, to emphasise the idea over the material, which dovetails nicely into nullification of praxis and denigration of actual existing socialism. It is maybe best exemplified by Western Marxists, who having failed to develop proletetiat revolution in the imperial cores resolved to intellectual naval gazing.

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        because the bourgeois socialists are of the intellectual class, and they love post-marxist postmodern yapping, neo-machianism, new critism, and whatever Lacanian freudian incest pathology they come up with.