Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 16 If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao's Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci wrote a series of essays and books while imprisoned by the Italian fascists in the 1920s and 1930s that are referred to as his Prison Notebooks. These are the birthplace of Cultural Marxism, which James Lindsay argues has evolved into "Identity Marxism" since. Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted. Though he didn't coin the term, the idea fellow communist Rudi Dutschke would name "the long march through the institutions" in 1967 is ultimately Gramsci's roadmap to getting communism to take hold in the West. Gramsci identifies that the "cultural hegemony" of Western cultures prevented communism from having any chance of taking root, so he recommended a strategy that seeks to tear apart and capture major cultural institutions, including religion, family, education, media, and law. Mao understood this clearly and used it to devastating effect. The same thing is happening throughout the West today. Join James Lindsay as he explains the thought and relevance of Antonio Gramsci in today's Woke movement, which he aptly brands "Leninism 4.0." Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 http://bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	The Hello everybody it's James Lindsay you are listening to the new
0:23.3	Discourses podcast and today I want to tell you about a person his name is
0:28.2	Antonio Gramshi Antonio Gramshi's a very important character.
0:32.8	In fact, he's probably the lynchpin
0:34.8	between historical marks and present day everything
0:41.2	on the left that's gone out of control anyway.
0:43.0	Present day Leftism.
0:44.8	Antonio Gramsci, I don't really have, by the way,
0:48.4	super detailed notes about this, but I just kind of want to give you a picture of
0:51.4	how important this guy is.
0:53.0	He was an Italian Marxist.
0:55.0	He was jailed in the 1920s,
0:58.0	um,
0:59.0	1926 specifically by the Italian fascists.
1:02.0	Most people don't realize given how brutal
1:06.7	brutally fascist a communist regime turn out to be, but the communists and
1:10.8	the fascists in the 1920s and 1930s were not quite on the same side.
1:16.8	When they jailed him, they said that they needed to silence his mind
1:21.4	for 20 years.
1:23.7	Graham She, if you've been following some of my other stuff
1:26.8	I've been working on, you'll not be terribly surprised
1:29.1	to find out was not in great health.
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