He is basically describing what the communists in the Soviet Union did to us.
Remember the speech Putin made right after Obama was elected?
He said, "America, do not go down the road to communism, for that is what destroyed Russia".
He knew what the KGB had done to us and is afraid of communism in the USA doing the same back to Russia.
It was easy to infiltrate our universities as many "educators" tend to lean to the left anyway.
As with so many Marxists and leftists in general, Gramsci was a bitter, resentful creature and sought to take his hatred out on normal, decent people. His Albanian father was imprisoned for embezzlement. Gramsci himself had a badly twisted spine, was severely hunchbacked and suffered tuberculosis most of his life. Is it any wonder he expects the rest of us to suffer too?
The left has followed his advice of the “long march through the institutions” to a T, and it’s succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
I can’t think of a single institution that the left does not control today, and they are become more and more entrenched.
Their wishes and policies have been institutionalized at the speed of light.
As an example, just look how quickly DEI has become part of every agency, organization and corporation.
Nantzy Pelousi’s inspiration for HER brand of Italian Marxism injected into the United States her entire House “career” representing the craphole that is San Fransisco. Piles of crap and empty shell people in the formerly beautiful city by the Bay.
Gramsci is worth studying, especially since Marx plagiarized him and Marx entirely depended on his guilty captialist rich pal— Engels. Couldn’t do it without “other people’s money”. As Soros has demonstrated HIS entire life.
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I wasn’t that familiar with Gramsci until I read “Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order” by Malachi Martin in 1991. By the time I put the book down, I had come around to the view that Gramsci was the most influential people of the last 100 years... and that influence flew to a large extent under the radar but permeated much and planted the seeds for what we see today.
https://www.amazon.ca/Keys-This-Blood-Versus-Control/dp/0671747231
I write to defend Gramsci.
Not because he wasn’t a deluded communist nutcase, which he was. But because he had no or only a very minor part in what happened.
He did not inspire much, in fact. Certainly not the “long march through the institutions” - which phrase he did not actually write, that was a German communist decades later.
What he did write was a mass of stuff, in prison or in hospital, some apparently on toilet paper. This was not exactly an immediate influence, coming out only slowly in translations. The first English edition did not come out till the 1970’s.
In the meantime, the “long march” was already underway, influenced by other people, notably Marcuse and the Frankfurt institute, Foucault, Fanon, etc. At this time Gramsci was mostly unread, unless one was Italian, or sometimes German.
Gramsci’s ideas didn’t really enter the English world until Hardt & Negri’s “Empire” came out in 2000, making a big deal of “cultural hegemony”, used exactly as Gramsci did, as an obstacle to selling communism to the masses. Hardt & Negri saw the power of institutional control as an enemy, bourgeois-capitalist thing.
Since then, Gramsci’s became an explanatory model of how the LEFT had taken over institutions. Rush Limbaugh, of all people, spoke quite a bit about Gramsci’s model.
So - Gramsci did not come up with the “long march” battleplan. At best he predicted it. His model was used as an explanation for the phenomenon after the fact.
Gramsci is not popular in the left at the moment. For understandable reasons, as his “hegemony” idea is too easily turned against them.
"Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a “war of position” for socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside. facebook sharing button twitter sharing button flipboard sharing button reddit sharing button linkedin sharing button email sharing button The Italian communist (1891 – 1937) is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the Cultural Marxist movement in modern America."