Gramsci says that one has to figure out what is the relation between large-scale economic forces and superstructural things. How important is any particular election? Is this just a conjunctural little blip on the landscape? He basically says there's no way to know that. That's going to take actual political analysis, whether you're right or wrong. For Kramsci, that kind of model of organic and conjunctural is built around this notion of trying to understand history as a series of crises and settlements.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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