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What philosophers can be described as “heroic?”

Is Antonio Gramsci based and redpilled?

Are there any good books that describe this phenomenon the right calls "cultural Marxism".
https://radicalfrontier.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-is-cultural-marxism-by-thuletide.html?m=1

>>14541758
It's not just poetry, it's every literary prize. The cultural elite clearly has it out for white people, which is bad because whatever the elite believes in inevitably filters down to the common herd eventually.

/our guy/ Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), a founding member of the Italian Communist Party, condemned Negro music in one of his prison letters. He wrote in 1928:

"If there is danger, it is rather in the music and dance imported into Europe by the Negroes. This music really conquered a whole fringe of the cultivated European population, it even created a real fanaticism. How can one imagine that the continual repetition of the physical gestures that negroes make while dancing around their fetishes, or that always listening to the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands, remains without ideological consequences?

(a) It is an enormously diffuse phenomenon, affecting millions and millions of people, especially young people;
(b) they are very energetic and violent impressions, leaving deep and lasting marks;
c) it is about musical phenomena, thus of manifestations which express themselves in the most universal language which exists today, in a language which communicates more quickly than any other the images and impressions of a civilization not only foreign to ours, but (...) primitive and elementary, so easily assimilable and generalizable by music and dance to the entire psychic world. "

And Gramsci concludes that the Westerner is "becoming a nigger, without realizing it".

(Antonio Gramsci, letter to Tania Schucht, February 27, 1928)

Nearly a hundred years after he wrote this, I daresay he was tragically right

Is Gramsci worth reading? If so, where should I start

Read Gramsci for the modern prince DLC

What are our collective thoughts on Gramsci's work? Specifically his Prison Notebooks?

>>11105823
Never underestimate the ideological hold capitalism has on the average person.

Communism

What do I need to know before reading Gramsci?

What are the essential texts to understanding his thought? Which articles specifically discuss cultural hegemony?

>>10145454
It's time to read Gramsci, my friend.
Work for humanity, not against it.

"It is all a matter of comparing one’s own life with something worse and consoling oneself with the relativity of human fortunes. When I was eight or nine I had an experience which came clearly to mind when I read your advice. I used to know a family in a little village near mine: father, mother and sons: they were small landowners and had an inn. Very energetic people, especially the woman. I knew (I had heard) that besides the sons we knew, this woman had another son nobody had seen, who was spoken of in whispers, as if he were a great disgrace for the mother, an idiot, a monster or worse. I remember that my mother referred to this woman often as a martyr, who made great sacrifices for this son, and put up with great sorrows. One Sunday morning about ten, I was sent to this woman’s: I had to deliver some crocheting and get the money. I found her shutting the door, dressed up to go out to mass, she had a hamper under her arm. On seeing me she hesitated then decided. She told me to accompany her to a certain place, and that she would take delivery and give me the money on our return. She took me out of the village, into an orchard filled with rubbish and plaster; in one corner there was a sort of pig sty, about four feet high, and windowless, with only a strong door. She opened the door and I could hear an animal-like howling. Inside was her son, a robust boy of 18, who couldn’t stand up and hence scraped along on his seat to the door, as far as he was permitted to move by a chain linked to his waist and attached to the ring in the wall. He was covered with filth, and his eyes shone red, like those of a nocturnal animal. His mother dumped the contents of her basket – a mixed mess of household leftovers – into a stone trough. She filled another trough with water, and we left. I said nothing to my mother about what I had seen, so great an impression it had made on me, and so convinced was I that nobody would believe me. Nor when I later heard of the misery which had befallen that poor mother, did I interrupt to talk of the misery of the poor human wreck who had such a mother."

Is this why Gramsci was a communist?

>cultural hegemony
so this is what people are talking about when they refer to cultural marxism, right? an attempt to estabilish a pro-revolutionary cultural hegemony, as outlined by Gramsci

>>3763710

Well, Marx didn't consider the fact that the status quo is not only maintained by economic systems, but also by hegemonic ideological systems disseminated by culture, family, education, legal systems and a bunch of other things.

So to answer your question, I don't know if they are more revolutionary, but they are definitely a necessity for a revolution to occur

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