Category Archives: Marxism

Jameson on Postmodernism and Affect

So, I find myself reading things that I don’t completely understand. It seems like whenever I read something, I find that there are dozens of references I don’t get, like I’m a culturally incompetetent twit. Actually, to be more accurate, … Continue reading

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Gramsci on neutralized class conflict

Lenin, for the most part, believed that class conflict was strong, and that the working class is subversive and social-democratic by nature (Fernia 33-34). However, Gramsci diverted from this: …in this Quarderni, Gramsci stressed that class conflict is not just … Continue reading

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Femia on Gramsci and Hegemony

Femia notes the fact that little attention at coming up with an exact meaning of hegemony and that most uses are vague (23). Gramsci notes that a dominant class controls in two ways: “‘domination’ (dominio), or coercion, and ‘intellectual and … Continue reading

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more on Gramsci

Femia writes that as Gramsci grew older, his focus changed to emphasizing “the self-education of the workers”: “The task of the revolutionary party, therefore, should be not to tutor the proletariat but to promote the formation of the consigli di … Continue reading

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hegemony

I thought I’d look into Gramsci as an alternative to Althusser (or complement, I don’t know) because he wrote about Marxism and hegemony back in Italy in the early 20th century. Joseph V. Femia, author of Gramsci’s Political Though: Hegemony, … Continue reading

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