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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. This episode is the first of a two-part interview with Michael

Denning on the Italian Communist leader and theorist Antonio Gramsci. It's something like a two-course

meal. This week, a shorter appetizer, shorter in dig terms, at least, followed next week by a

link-fear entree. Gramsci speaks to me not just intellectually, which he definitely does, but

more than perhaps any other Marxist theorist as an organizer. Gramsci developed Marxism or

the theory of praxis into a method for doing politics, first as a socialist and then communist

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