Gramsci argues that economism can reduce politics to a moralistic accusation of duplicity and bad faith. His analysis of the Bulangi movement in 1880s, 1890s France is a disguised way of his thinking about Mussolini. He both tries to understand the left from the point of view of the right and the right from thePoint of View of the Left.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview.
Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks
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