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Revolutionary Left Radio

Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Organic Intellectuals, & Italian Fascism

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Jon (from Horror Vanguard) and Brenden (from Marxism and Moshpits) return to the show; this time to discuss the life and political theory of the famous Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.

Find Jon's show (@HorrorVanguard) here: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Check out Brenden's punk band No Thanks here: https://no-thanks.bandcamp.com/

Outro music 'To the Fellow Travellers' by Brzowski

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Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-cduFlGBY&feature=emb_title

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Intro music by DJ Captain Planet.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

0:09.4

On today's episode we have John from the horror van guard and Brendan from Marxism and

0:13.7

Moshpitz on to talk about the political theorist and revolutionary Antonio Gromschi.

0:20.5

Before we get into the episode though, I did want to play a little clip from a long

0:24.0

time listener, friend and comrade of the show Cameron Crowder, who recently spoke up

0:29.3

in front of the Greensboro North Carolina City Council on behalf of Marcus Dion Smith,

0:35.8

who was a homeless black man murdered by Greensboro police.

0:41.1

And he's just basically standing up in front of his community and really inspiring and

0:47.8

passionate appeal for people not to forget this, criticism of the police and white supremacy.

0:53.2

I just found the entire thing incredibly inspirational and I hope it inspires others

0:57.7

to do similar things.

0:59.3

Before I play the little two minute clip, I just want to give a little context.

1:02.8

This is what Cameron texted me for any context so people basically know what he's talking

1:07.1

about in this clip.

1:08.8

Cameron texted me, the Greensboro police murdered a homeless black man, Marcus Dion Smith,

1:14.7

who was going through a mental health crisis by hog tying him with a rip hobble device

1:19.6

and he died from positional affixiation.

1:22.7

The then police chief Wayne Scott tried to cover up the murder by omitting the hog tying

1:27.5

from all the reports and even lied to the state medical examiner.

1:31.1

It was only the family lawyer that informed the medical examiner that Marcus had indeed

1:35.5

been hog tied.

1:37.2

So far, no justice has been served for the Smith family, no closure, no reparations, but

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