Gramsci and the art of politics - Alex Callinicos
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2018
- Gramsci and the art of politics
Speaker: Alex Callinicos
July 2018
marxismfestival.org.uk
socialistworker.co.uk/art/468...
The Marxism 2018 festival, hosted by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), took place last week in a context of deepening political polarisation across the world.
Meetings grappled with how the collapse of mainstream politics has fuelled the rise of the far right-but has also created opportunities for the radical left.
At a meeting on the Windrush scandal and “Britishness”, anti-racist activist Weyman Bennett argued that “a crisis of the extreme centre” has led mainstream politicians to turn on migrants, refugees and Muslims.
Latifa Abouchakra an NEU teachers’ union member, told the opening rally, “With the white working class, they’re told the reason they’re short of money is because the Muslims and the immigrants are here.”
In a meeting on Donald Trump’s trade wars, Alex Callinicos said Trump represented a response that is not wedded to neoliberalism. He warned that the far right have taken the opportunity to grow from Trump’s policies.
A lively debate over the racist US president’s politics sprang up at a panel meeting on the resistance to Trump.
US Marxist John Bellamy Foster argued that Trump was a “neo-fascist”-which he contended was different to “traditional” fascism.
He pointed out that Trump’s support comes from the same social base as does fascists’-the middle classes.
However, people pointed out that neither Trump nor the Republican Party is aligned to a street movement, as is the case with fascist parties. All attending agreed that the need to confront the fascists on the streets was of paramount importance.
Other discussions focused on how the left can use the political crisis to build an alternative.
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Thank you for this upload. I am planning on delving into Gramsci, and this was a great introduction.
Interesting stuff
As somebody who doesn't need to grand stand, this the most eloquent need for a revolutionary party that is not elitist. And because Alex makes so much sense happy to piggyback on this in like the previous comments.
Taking over, that's wonderful. And than what?
Nice to see Ronnie Corbett again
So, what about the active and perpetual counter-revolutionary practices of the State today. How is this to be addressed? This Marx as history approach doesn't seem to be working.
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“Socialism is precisely
the religion that must
overwhelm Christianity.”
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"In the new order,
Socialism will triumph
by first capturing the
culture via infiltration
of schools, universities,
churches and the media
[followed] by transforming
the consciousness of society.”
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Antonio Francesco Gramsci
created “Cultural” Marxism in
Italy during the 1920s due to
the debunking of “Classical”
Marxism during World War I.
Gramsci had concluded that
politics is downstream from
culture. The Frankfurt School
developed further this crafty
infiltration strategy for their
imposition of totalitarianism.
The poison is Critical Theory.
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🇺🇸 Marc J. Metivier 🇺🇸
Sad little Antonio Gramsci created “Cultural” Marxism in Italy during the 1920s due to the total failure of “Classical” Marxism 1914-1920. Gramsci could not accept the fact that Marxism was racist anti-Semitism veiled in nonsense economic theory , (or secular religious dogma). Marxism appealed to Gramsci's personal narcissism and his grandiose narcissistic (idealized) projections , as opposed to the reality of material individualization (ie. we all live as individuals in a material world). A reality that requires individual rights and respect to work as developed in the Abrahamic faiths and todays Human Rights norms . Marxism the politicization of malignant narcissism, with its believers being split between the vulnerable and the grandiose (the save the world type) narcissistic roles, both only seeking to undo both Judeo- Christian and Human Rights norms . The Gramsci concluded that politics is downstream from culture and sought a new Marxist cultural "practice" of infiltration of social /civic groups, schools, churches and so on to foster a toxic Marxist politics .The Frankfurt School advanced this deceitful infiltration strategy and the imposition of toxic Marxist totalitarianism, the poison of anti-Semitism, and human rights abuse today is found today in this practice of Critical Theory and the political extremist promoted by the narcissists that dominate the ego-activist culture.
Political extremism, politicized racism, the totalitarian pathologies reliance on coercion and suppression of dissent the can be assessed using standard HUMAN RIGHTS norms as defined and universally agreed to, in the UDHR 1948.
THE ONE THING Cultural Leftists the “Politically Correct”, the sanctimonious “Progressives”, the “Woke”, Ego-activists, Evangelical Socialists and the old line Marxist do not want you to know is that Marxism, their underlining belief system, beyond being a failed, politically fraudulent narrative, is a new updated variant on ancient anti-Semitic racism. “Marxism” secular-religious dogma with a long history of use undermining the Jewish people , Judeo -Christian values and universal Human Rights norms. Marxism embeds both an explicit and subliminal anti-Semitic Racism veiled in the rhetorical mumbo-jumbo of social class “pollicised” envy and nonsense economic theory.
Marxism given the pathologies of its founder can be understood as the politicization of malignant narcissism, with its contemporary advocates playing the vulnerable or the grandiose (the save the world type) narcissistic role. The narcissistic traits of Marxism, and its appeal to narcissists are expressed in its tenets and political positions which can be exposed as harmful to others when measured against basic human rights of everyone ( UDHR 1948) or by Jewish and Judeo -Christian cultural norms. Sadly like most narcissists Marxists can not abide direct criticism, which Marxist can nor counter in rational debate and so often rely on censorship, ( “cancel culture” ), personal attacks ( see art.12 UDHR), and subterfuge.
As all informed people know Karl Marx was a virulent racist who used the “N’ word, hated most races except selected European races, and in spite of being of Jewish origins himself, hated the Jewish people, and Jeudo-Christian values with a particular venom ( see N. Weyl “Karl Marx Racist”) . Marx’s anti-Semitic racism delineated his first major essay “On the Jewish Question”, ( also known as “A World without Jews” ), a text dedicated to assimilationist genocide of the Jewish people, and described by Bernard Lewis Professor Emeritus of Princeton University has as "one of the classics of anti-Semitic propaganda”. Karl Marx’s racist anti-Semitism would define his life and fraudulent “research” , both explicitly as well as subliminally in his rhetoric, writings and policies.
Today the toxic influence of Marxism within the academy has underscored a growing concern regarding the liabilities of the fraudulent, biased and harmful effects of an educational culture dominated by the kind of the political/cultural imbalance found in many academic communities. An imbalanced unsafe space for many students as it stigmatizes Judeo-Christian and Abrahamic peoples and values and incites Human Rights abuses, as defined by such normative standards as the UDHR 1948. www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Karl Marx’s anti-Semitic RACIST discourse is veiled in his fraudulent pseudo-rational, economic mumbo -jumbo. A rhetorically closed self-justifying system, subjective definitions, an absence of natural economic or independent price signals, lack of internal consistency, the nuttiness of a “labour theory of value”, the pagan religion (dogma) of “historical / dialectical materialism”, sectarian intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism a series of rather glaring epistemological problems and so on. It was more an expression of a narcissistic pathology than rational economic analysis, as noted by Robert Solow (Nobel Prize Economics 1987) “most serious English-speaking economists regard Marxist economics as an irrelevant dead end.”
Sadly however Marxism is today the most prevalent form of structural/cultural anti-Semitic Racism, designed to undermine the core identities of Jewish and Judeo-Christian people and the Basic Human Rights (UDHR 1948) of everyone else. It is an old narrative of narcissistic “power seeking” be it fostered by the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt as the “god” of the temporal world or the contemporary jargon of “historical / dialectical materialism” and “scientific socialism” that effects the same outcome. In both beliefs everyone is defined by governing narcissists who hate any independence from their claim to ‘authority”. Today such claims to authority are often embedded in the more subtle political semiotics ( political gaslighting) of the Cultural Leftists. The fact is that due to its premise in the pagan religion or belief of historical / dialectical materialism, Marxist is RACISM when understood through a Jewish, Judeo-Christian, Abrahamic or a human rights lens (UDHR 1948) lens, a point too often overlooked by the Cultural Leftists.
……..Identifying both the intrinsic RACISM and Human Rights Abuse these kinds of Cultural Leftists and Ego-activists promote can start with understanding the distorting cultural semiotics and subliminal anti-Semitic Racism promoted by Karl Marx…a new variant on the racist cultural rhetoric that the Pharaoh used against the independence of the Jewish people 5000 years ago - The oldest racism in history. ua-cam.com/video/rZh01xRO_Qg/v-deo.html
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Marx was wrong about the inevitability of the rate of profit to fall - and that was the basis of his belief in the inevitability of socialist revolution. Marx was wrong because he refused to recognize that machines can create surplus value and hence profits. The labor theory of value is just plain wrong - any source of energy can create surplus value, not just human labor. So replacing human labor with machines does not adversely affect the rate of profit and might actually increase the profit rate. In fact, that is what has happened.
Marx was wrong in thinking that the increased use of machinery reduces the rate of profit. He was wrong in believing that only human labor can create surplus value. The labor theory of value is simply incorrect - any source of energy can create value, not just human labor. Machinery does create value far in excess of the value of the human labor that went into building the machine. This should be obvious. Marx’s revolution never occurred because of this basic error.
who mantains the machines?
Antonio Gramsci is inspirational, his thoughts. But his end is a big discouragement. His countrymen never supported him. What's the price you pay to be talkative among dumbs.
Thanks Gramsci to alienate us from core communism.
So when the Marxist revolution succeds it produces disasters like the Soviets, Mao, Cambodia etc. It's also inspired fascist counter revolutions in Italy, Germany, Spain etc... Are there any examples of when this ideology had lead to anything good?
Most social democratic parties (e.g. the Labour party or SPD in Germany) were Marxist or would've identified as Marxist at their time of conception in the early 20th century. Although all of them are a shadow of their former selves, at least in the post-WW2 period they managed to set up the welfare state which greatly improved living standards and built large amounts of infrastructure. Secondly, I think that some Marxists would dispute whether if there were Marxist revolutions in China, Cambodia, Italy, Spain, etc. A Marxist revolution isn't just about the seizure of power by a political bloc that self-identifies as Marxist. It's also about the self-emancipation of the working class where they reject the capitalist mode of production and gain the confidence to make democratic decisions about economic production (via worker's councils). That hasn't really happened much other than in Russia for a small period of time and maybe in Catalonia in the 1930s. But in both cases, they got distorted or wiped out by counter-revolutions/wars because capitalist countries have an interest in not letting socialist states exist.
China is no more of a "disaster" than any of the so-called democratic states !
Marxism inspired fascism in Italy, Germany, Spain? What are you talking about?
@@ed11689 Do not confuse Marx with “Marxism”. Marx didn’t call for a totalitarian state. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, etc.. called themselves Marxists but that’s really very misleading.
@@stevenyourke7901 I don't think Marx called for reformism either. Most labour parties today are a disgrace and compete with the Conservatives to prove that they can be more responsible managers of capitalism.