The left has to imagine that we inherit a set of debates and contributions toward emancipation. A 19th century word is probably liberation; I don't know what the 21st century word is, but is imagining some other world. And in that sense, those figures that are part of that tradition, whether it's Marx and Douglass from the generation of 1848, or whether it's Du Bois and Gramsci from thegeneration of 1919.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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