Gramsci warned that parliamentary regimes are not like once you're there, you're there forever. It's only in retrospect that one sees the first beer hall as a precursor to the third Reich. The black liberation movement of the 50s and 60s was started by small numbers of people who took off amazingly.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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