
Gramsci & Hegemony w/ Michael Denning
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Marxism Is a Challenge to Commonsense, and the Challenge Is to Root Ideologies
Gromcy writes that a successful ideological movement can only come about when in the process of elaborating a form of thought superior to common sense and coherent on a scientific plane. He says Catholicism is for him a very powerful conception of the world, which he says, always maintained a connection between the intellectuals, the theologians, and the ordinary people. And so for him, the challenge for the philosophy of praxis, for Marxism, for his Communist Party is to create a conception of theWorld accessible both to young militants,. still barely literate barely numerate, but also the intellectuals who are contesting and battling.
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