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The Dig

Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview. Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email Peruse our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Check out Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century by Danny Katch haymarketbooks.org/books/1943-socialism-seriously Check out Black Women Writers at Work haymarketbooks.org/books/1926-black-women-writers-at-work

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1:25.1

Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jacob and Maxine my name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island

1:40.2

This is the second and final part of my interview with Michael Denning on the Italian Communist leader and theorist Antonio Gramsci

1:47.7

Please do listen to the first part if you haven't already

1:51.6

They're both truly remarkable conversations that provide us all organizing on the left with methods rather than guarantees

2:00.2

The questions we should be asking rather than always true answers scripted a century ago

2:07.4

Sometime in the next few months, I'll be doing another set of interviews with Denning on Stuart Hall who Denning studied with at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies

2:16.1

But first after listening to the draft of this interview there are two things I want to spell out in in greater detail up front

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