Everything is written with the prison sensor in mind in some kind of way. So that leads to a long debate in Gramscien interpretation. And I'll give you two sides of it and another way to think about it. One is that we should read all of the things as just code words, that he couldn't say Marxism. The philosophy of praxis has a whole set of meanings and connotations for Gramsci that go beyond what would be done by just reducing it to Marxism.
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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