Gramsci wrote that capitalism has rendered all forms of oppression, hierarchy and domination just stark and clear. He didn't seem to take account of this coming world to be played by new and powerful superstructure he says. Gramsci identified forces that would mystify and religitimize capitalism again and again. But perhaps they really didn't exist in that way at the time.
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