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Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning

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Is Grouchy a Hegemon?

Grouchy's insistence that any potential hegemon needs to speak to the national popular has always been fraught for the US left. Grouchy is writing in a situation of a country that, if it was ever a major world power, was well into antiquity. And where Grouchy writes most of this thing about a society where there was no hegemonic party. It makes one have to rethink US history, not as one long hegemonic moment but wow, is there real breaks?

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