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Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning

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Gramsci's Prison Notebooks Are a Powerful Reflection on What Went Wrong, Why They Were Defeated

Gramsci's prison notebooks particularly are a powerful reflection on what went wrong, why they were defeated. He says about those three parts of the party that you just mentioned, that the responsibility may be unequal in different cases, but all of them are responsible for the defeat. And he's saying that in the face of a fascist regime coming into power. We have to think both as leaders of the party, as intermediaries, and as members of what we did wrong, and how to re-understand that.

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