Antonio Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony (Makers of the Modern World)
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In this podcast, I continue our discussion of Marxist thinkers as I explain the ideas and life of Antonio Gramsci and how these themes impact our world today.
“Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to” - Antonio Gramsci
Never..I will never forget what communism did to my country...never .the past is a necessity..
@@jordanbey870 Marksists always have been the biggest sense ers of ideas
Due to his view in western government structures, I'd like to see one on John Locke in particular his influence on classic liberalism and natural rights and your thoughts on these from a Christian view on government.
It would be cool if he could have a conversation with Glen Sunshine on this!
You are doing excellent work sir, not sure why this channel was not recommended for me earlier.
Dr Cooper is incredibly gifted in communicating his thoughts. Thanks doc.
What do you mean he wasn't of Italian descent? His mother was a local from Sardinia. Also, his father is from a Southern Italian Albanian minority which has both Italian and Albanian origins -> See the Name Gramsci which is both Italian and Arbëresh. Furthermore, his grandmother was Teresa Gonzales -> Gramsci was also of Spanish descent.
I guess he meant he wasn't from the peninsula. Italy's political borders have changed since 1891
His last name come’s from the city of Gramsh in Albania
I don't know who started it, but a critique of Fascism would be very helpful.
Is there any evidence of communication and/or influence from Gramsci to the Frankfurt School prior to his imprisonment?
Could you cover the crazy world of Michel Foucault and Wilhelm Reich?
Covering Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, or Nozick would be nice. Also, only because he's popular in academia: Rawls.
Yes Rawls is always referred to. And foacult
Great video Doctor. I can confirm that he believed in a battle ground of culture, and that this is not just a translation thing. It's fundamental to how he's viewed today.
I think the figures most in need of a video, at this point, are Hegel, Kant, Derrida, and others like that. However, I think the best next video would be an evaluation of the Birmingham school (and its two founders)Founders, and how they turned Gramsci into the foundational unit of cultural studies.
If you're taking suggestions, Noam Chomsky is one that I'd be interested in seeing a video on, if he qualifies for what you would consider a "Maker of the modern world".
I really appreciate the series. Thanks for all your work!
Thank you so much. This was a very clear explanation.
I am amazed at the depth of your knowledge.
Would love to hear you covering Jean Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault, as well as the thoughts of older thinkers like Descartes who have been influential on modern thought. Thank you!
How about Saul Alinsky and “Rules for Radicals?”
Excellent video! Thank you so much, Dr. Cooper.
From a christian and a socialist, really good talk. I would point out that you can see much of what Gramsci is talking about successfully adopted by the populist-right: a separate media defining its own counter hegemony (Christian Nationalism), featuring its own crop of organic intellectuals critiquing the dominant hegemony: the society resulted from neoliberal economics and a liberalism that's severed its ties to the working class. Sadly, Gramsci's critique of "let the past die" is lost on most modern "leftists" who are still googly eyed about Lenin, and get misty over the 1930's American Labor Movement.
great video series.. finally the stuff going on today make so much more sense
Another great video, Dr. Cooper. Personally, I'd like to see a video on C.S. Peirce, William James, and American Pragmatism. Despite the fact that some may consider them somewhat dry, one cannot ignore the impact of their thought on life in the 20th century and beyond.
Yet another great presentation from this Makers of the Modern World series.
I'd like to suggest an improvement that you could make to your videos, Dr. Cooper. It seems to me the levels of your mic might be a little off meaning your voice sounds a bit scorched. Next time try bringing the mic levels a little bit lower before starting to record. I hope this helps!
Good video Dr. Cooper. You covered Gramsci's life and thought quite well in an hour video.
To be honest I had never heard of Gramsci before although his ideas are certainly familiar and something we hear a lot of in the media these days.
Interesting
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Thank you for continuing this series. I found your point regarding Gramsci's lack of wealth and his family's financial condition (as opposed to the wealth of many of the other communist / Marxist thinkers) enlightening. Perhaps he could see - because he lived among them and as the wealthier Marxist thinkers could not - that the lower classes were not going to rise up because they accepted the cultural framework of society. He lived among those that made clear that the economic condition was not the primary issue.
Why should the proletariat intellectuals be more honest than the Bourgeoise intellectuals?
Precisely, I've never encountered a good Marxist explanation of why human nature is fundamentally good, yet the bougoise are fundamentally evil, but when Marxists take power they'll be different. Power attracts the coruptible, and Marxists are just as coruptible as anyone else.
Lennin is a necessary piece for a survey of Marxism, if nothing else, to explain how post-Marxism develops. Thanks for the videos.
Great content! Thanks!
Is there any essential difference between fascism and socialism (communism) that cannot be traced in some way to the division over nationalism vs. internationalism? I don’t think that we should ever concede that fascism and communism are on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum (and I’m not saying that you did, but it is their contention, it is a dominant presupposition in political science, and it is a constant temptation for the popular imagination).
I informally agree. I've lived in China and now in Taiwan. Xi is making Chinese Communism a little more Socialist that they had been for a generation or so. But there's no question that Nationalism is way more important to everyone, top to bottom. So they are literally National Socialists.
I would disagree that Marxists do not create good art, at least some Marxist art I've seen isn't bad. It's not the best art, the Catholics take that spot, but some Marxist art is quite good.
Did he really supported Russia ro rule Italy? Because he had disagreements with Russian revolutioners.
Gramsci seems more honest than other Marxists in one respect, he acknowledges that Marxism is a religion. All Marxists act like that, but he is honest enough to accept that.
another interesting lecture that jumps the shark about the 1:05 mark
one of greatest assumption of Antiono Gramshi that cultural nomrs are creates by rulling Bourgiozes ...
Gramsci is not a relativist, his approach is the (Marxist) philosophy of praxis. As well, the description here of ideology as false consciousness, i.e. interests of the powerful made to seem natural, is fine for garden variety leftism and postmodern deconstruction, but it is not Gramscian, as you can glean from his critique of Bukharin's interpretation of Historical Materialism, which also shows that Gramsci is not a simple historicist either. Insofar as he is Marxist, his approach to dialectical materialism cannot be defined without some reference to historicity, and it is historicity that defines Marxism as a worldview. In addition, you should not conflate contemporary so-called "cultural Marxism" or postmodern leftism with Gramsci because, again, Gramsci is Marxist and left postmodernists are usually not Marxist and this goes especially for intersectionalists, discourse theorists, critical race theorists, Derrideans, Deleuzians, Butlerians, etc. The postmodern version of Gramsci comes out most forcefully in the writings of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, which is, ultimately, democratic or populist.
could it be possible that Gramschi had identified that ' capitalism' does lift people out of poverty, that's why he argues more about the identification of 'culture' as the new 'proletariat?'
Engels alluded to it in a letter written in the 1890's. The emergence of the middle class and upward (class) mobility. By the 1920's/'30s they (Frankfurt School) had to be aware of it.
This is pretty damned shallow.
Breakers of the Modern World in actuality ...... but it's important to know and understand how they work in order to best counter their works.
Ideas: if covering american marxism, the origins of DSA/Jacobin and SDS, IWW, socialist party, third position, the trotskyist sects, the Maoists, Castroites, stalinists, etc. And george orwell and noam chomsky still have way too many admirers. But do Rawls first please. :) :)
So the trouble I can’t escape is his relativism. I just don’t get why are the communist say that oppression of the proletariat is bad? If we are just animals, no value whatsoever and there is no measuring stick for right and wrong then why do they say it is bad to oppress others? I mean there are a lot of gaping holes like this in communists (Gramsci’s) teaching like him saying that communism is pretty much elitism and revolution is pretty much is just change of elite but relativism bothers me the most.
As a lifelong leftist, Gramsci is not liked or respected by most leftists. He’s also not widely read. He was an interesting person but his work is just not taken seriously and his impact is mostly overstated.
This is interesting as theres a local pastor here who seems to take gramsci very seriously
Hmmm Idk about that
@@ericlehman53, yeah, the paranoid far right talk a lot about him though. His writings have become a right wing boogeyman.
@@ryanll7312 His work is respected by many leftists. I'm not sure how you concluded it's not.
@@ryanll7312 It doesn't matter if most leftists care or not, even if you don't care, there's nothing wrong with putting up boundaries so that ideas like his can never take root. The problem is pretending the desires like his don't exist.
A narrow and distorted view of Gramsci. He read a couple of books about him but his thought went over his head. Nice try!
It is interesting that Gramsci comes out of the Italian Socialist Party and goes in the direction of communist revolution to make socialism a reality, while literally at the same time Mussolini comes out of the Italian Socialist Party and goes in the direction of fascist revolution to make socialism a reality.
Mussolini was thrown out of the Italian Socialist Party.
@@ericlehman53 he also earned his nickname "the duce" the day he became the editor of Avanti! He began to disagree with the internationalism of the Italian socialist party. Whatever he was he never renounced his socialist roots.
But his ideas were wacky. Even Ethiopia and Libya called his bluffs. And he kinda created the first "mass-man", where an individual was just a disposable piece in state backed capitalism or military.
If you are an american, it would be impossible for you to imagine being a disposable slave to some mystically venerated "nation" state.
@@saimbhat6243 really? Might wanna look into Woodrow Wilson!
@@Animalis_MundanaActually, he does very explicitly in “The Doctrine of Fascism” with Giovanni Gentile. Regardless of your thoughts on socialism, to say that fascism is a socialistic ideology is purely inaccurate.
He was crooked in soul and body.