Richard Wolff returns to Live on the Fly with Randy Credico for a continuation of their conversation on Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s early life in Sardinia and his political work in Italy provide context for his theory of cultural hegemony and the ideas developed in his Prison Notebooks. Culture, education, and media shape how people understand their social conditions and can limit the chances of revolutionary change. The themes echo in today’s United States, where rising inequality raises similar questions about social and political transformation.
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According to Noam Chomsky Lenin was a "right wing deviation"... I wonder what do you have to say about that... "What we see today is a ruling class strive to control of the working class... Lenin was a right wing deviation of the Socialist movement, and he was so regarded by the main stream Marxists, and we forgot who they were because they've lost. The mainstream Marxists for example were like Anton Pannekoek, Rosa Luxembourg, they were very critical of Leninism because they regarded it as an opportunistic vanguard-ism, the idea that the radical intelligentsia were gonna exploit popular movements to cease state power and to use that state power to whip the population and the society they chose. That was inconsistent with mainstream Marxism that is left Marxists and from this point of vie Bolshevism was a right wing deviation."
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Dude… hit the mute button if you’re not talking. GREAT interview! Loved it!