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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 Gromshi. 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.

Gromshi speaks to me not just intellectually, which he definitely does, but more than perhaps

any other Marxist theorist as an organizer. Gromshi developed Marxism or the theory of praxis

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