Politically, no. Socially, absolutely. Gramsci's redirection of communism to that effect is what came to the US via the Institute for Social Research.
As to the Progressives, it was one of them who rescued the IFSR to plant them at Columbia as but a part of a much larger and more destructive plan, in the person who shall remain unidentified in this discussion pending release of my next book.
Unfortunately, I am convinced that there are all of about 5 people who have actually read what Gramsci wrote and one of those persons is James Lindsay which means there are 4 left. I am not one of those 4 who have read Gramsci’s books to be fair. And of those 4 only 2 of them actually own his books and use them effectively for footnotes/references.
I hope you get enough sales to justify your time investment on that book.
The thing of it is that the math is irrefutable and it isn’t even close, the progressives “win” hands down by comparison.
Starting with Progressive Presidents Roosevelt and Wilson in the Progressive era, add in another Roosevelt and Truman and LBJ and moving forward the progressives have had pretty much 120 years of continued success at subverting our country.
The communists can’t come close to 120. I don’t even think the communists could cough up 3 years in their wildest dreams. The math is so overwhelmingly stacked against the communists that I think it’s literally stupid to waste so much time on such failures when the progressives have done such supreme damage to the U.S. And the progressives keep getting away with it.
Progressivism is America’s Cancer. Progressivism deserves way more examination than it receives and we’re killing ourselves by ignoring them and focusing so much attention on the small group of stupid ineffective communists.
We are wasting time on the communists. Wasting time. What about the progressives?
You’ve got so many vibrant weeds growing under your window and they’re going crazy. Why are you wasting so much time on that barely hanging on wilting weed at the corner of your house?
I can’t make any sense of this. I’ll stay by the window. These weeds here are the actual problem.