The Most Dangerous Marxist You've Never Heard Of

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

It seems like the entire world is going mad. We’re constantly told the most insane things imaginable, and that we’re bad guys if we don’t believe it. So how exactly did this happen? Where did it come from? What if there was one man who not only predicted most of the insanity that’s going on today, but he was actually the author of it all?

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:00 - The insanity all around us

00:08:39 - Who is Antonio Gramsci?

00:12:29 - Why did Gramsci become a Marxist?

00:18:14 - Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

00:21:30 - Why Did Lenin Succeed in Russia and Gramsci Failed in Italy?

00:23:24 - The Role of Intellectuals

00:34:00 - Cultural Hegemony and War of Position

00:48:00 - State and Civil Society

00:59:00 - The Long March Through the Institutions

01:22:21 - The Long March is Over

01:38:50 - The Left Cannot Course Correct

01:45:18 - What Comes Next?

Transcript

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0:00.0	So I think a lot of us have been looking around at our country the last decade or so and
0:06.0	been thinking to ourselves, this place has gotten a little bit nuts and it's been very quick.
0:10.0	It's been accelerated.
0:11.0	We feel like there's ideas or concepts that became popular in a relatively short period of time.
0:16.0	And it seems like they came out of nowhere, but they didn't.
0:19.0	There was actually quite the lead-in to all of this.
0:22.0	And in fact, today we're going to talk about someone who we think is the most dangerous
0:26.0	Marxist you've never heard of.
0:28.7	And what's fascinating about this guy is that if you go back and you look at his history,
0:32.2	you can kind of understand where he was coming from.
0:34.7	And that's going to be one of the things we do today. We're going to try to identify who this guy is, what his theories were, and his perspective, right? Where was he
0:42.0	coming from as he laid out this process whereby his ideology, his political beliefs, could
0:50.1	become dominant in a society that at least at the onset completely rejected all of them.
0:57.2	And it's amazing to see how successful his strategy has been.
1:01.1	So we're going to look at that.
1:02.1	We're going to look at the man.
1:03.1	We're going to look at the perspective.
1:04.1	We're going to look at the strategy.
1:05.2	And then we're going to answer the very important question of, how do you fight back against
1:08.8	it?
1:09.8	And spoiler alert, it's not just by voting harder
1:12.1	all of that coming up on this episode of making the argument I'm your host Nick Freitas
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