one of best ta ever taught there.
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antonio gramsci
one of those revolutionaries who managed to remain a marxist while still criticizing marxism and trying to develop it further.
lenin, rosa luxemburg, and gramsci are some of the clearest examples of thinkers who challenged parts of marxist theory without abandoning it.
one of gramsci’s biggest questions was this:
if capitalism produces so much inequality, why does it survive not only through police, armies, and state power, but also through the consent of ordinary people?
his answer was hegemony.
the ruling class is strongest when it can present its own interests as if they were simply the interests of society as a whole.
for example:
“if the rich invest, everyone benefits.”
“if you are unemployed,…