Gramsci (was Re::Fascism" Re: China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education)

[Michael McIntyre]

There is, of course, the question of prison censorship to consider.  Mussolini called his regime "totalitarian" with no negative implication, so Gramsci may well have been playing along, just as Marxism regularly appears in the Prison Notebooks as the "philosophy of praxis" and Lenin appears as "Ilyich" or even "Ulyanov".  (This doesn't mean that we should sign onto the reading of Gramsci that makes him "the Marxist you can take home to mother.")

Michael McIntyre


>>> jkschw at hotmail.com 06/25/01 03:22PM >>>
Gramsci called his Modern Prince (the Party) "totalitarian," with no 
negative implication.

--jks


>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com 
>To: lbo <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re::Fascism" Re: China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher 
>education
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:51:49 -0700
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>    Carrol, what's her name is Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Need some gincko(sic.?)
>Helps with memory. In fact I need some!
>    Re: Totalitarianism: Pre-dates the Cold War Liberals, the category,
>label, that is. First usage, late 20's, by German leftists. See, "The Lost
>Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism, "
>William David Jones, Univ. of Illinois Press. Blurbed by Doug Kellner and
>Stephen Eric Bronner.
>http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f99/jones.html 
>   "Totalitarianism
>The Inner History of the Cold War
>ABBOTT GLEASON
>http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195050185.html 
>   New Leftish critique of Totalitarian thesis, see collection of essays by
>Thomas Patterson, title is something like, "The Merger of the Image of Nazi
>Germany and Soviet Russia in the 40's: "Red Fascism", " originally in the
>AHR or JAH in 1970.
>Michael Pugliese
>P.S. I agree with Carrol, that fascism has to be a strictly delimited term.
>For the best on fascism, from a poli sci guy, see Roger Griffin.
>http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/hirg.html 
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