Actually (I can't make this stuff up, it is too surreal) some of the right-wing ideologues who changed the way corporate/wealth/rightist funding was targeted credit Gramsci for influencing their idea of strategically funding a shift in cultural hegemony that would move the political scene to the right.
-Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: The Texas populist take on the tax cut
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> Chip Berlet wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Woj is correct, centrist/liberal foundation funding
> outwieghs rightist
> > funding, and rightist funding is aimed far more strategically.
> >
>
> In other words the right is more successful in purifying its ranks of
> those who pretend to be conservative while expounding liberal policy,
> while liberals being more open take become a conduit for conservative
> rather than liberal viewpoints?
>
> It looks like the Right adheres to a strong version of
> Leninism: Better
> fewer but better.
>
> Carrol
>