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SCREAMING HEADLINES ARE ANNOYING ENOUGH - BUT MORE SO COMING FROM BLOG PIMPS USING THEM AS ATTENTION GETTING DEVICES

[SMARTY]

Benito started out as a Socialist... he changed horses early on and had success (till they hung him) as a Fascist!

I guess no one hates a Totalitarian SOB more than a reformed Totalitarian SOB!! :)

[Revel]

A long ago Freeper(1998) named Coyote used to post and article attributed to “ACE”. It was called “Original Sin”. It dealt with this very issue of Gramsci. One of the most amazing things I ever read. Here you go:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604199/posts

[angryoldfatman]

bookmark for later

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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.fondazionegramsci.org/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgramsci%2Binstitute%26rlz%3D1C1CHFX_enUS589US589%26es_sm%3D93

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http://www.redstate.com/diary/delawarewindjammer/2012/01/13/obama-hillary-clinton-saul-alinsky-and-rules-for-radicals/

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http://www.wnd.com/2000/09/103/

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Say you were a communist or socialist in 1930 or 1970 and you followed the Gramscian strategy. Twenty or Thirty years on, would you really be closer to your goal?

An older Christian culture might have decayed, but would that really have been your doing, or the result of affluence and secularism? There could be more crime -- or less -- but once again would that actually be something you caused or something that would help your movement?

You might not find yourself any closer to actual socialism or communism than when you had started out. You might even find that your party or Western working class itself had completely unraveled. Would you think that you had succeeded? Or that you'd wasted your energy?

Also, if it were just a government crackdown Gramsci was looking for, he would have thrown in with Mussolini, which he didn't do. What he was looking for must have been more than that or different.