In recent years, a number of socialist thinkers have picked up where Gramsci left off. The old markers of mass heterogeneity and the peasantry no longer exist in the U.S., he says. But this country now does have a massive and internally diverse professional managerial class; there are so many marks of contradictory differentiation. What resources would Gramsci have for thinking about this motley class composition?
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks
Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email
Peruse our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com
Check out Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century by Danny Katch haymarketbooks.org/books/1943-socialism-seriously
Check out Black Women Writers at Work haymarketbooks.org/books/1926-black-women-writers-at-work