Gramsci: Mass adhesion or non adhesion to an ideology is the real critical test of the rationality and historicity of modes of thinking. I don't think the left has been able to figure this out in the absence of mass union density, he says. Gromshie doesn't often write about left and right in that way that we think about. And so he actually sees in a variety of subaltern visions of the world how it might change possibilities of new conception of the world.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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