I asked Gramsci to come on The Rubin Report and debate Sargon on Cultural Marxism and he never responded. It's a shame because I actually like his channel.
Dear Mr Wolff -I am a big fan of your clarity of thought -and the way you talk directly to your audience - explaining Gramsci. Thank you sir-for introducing me to Gramsci-in a manner, I doubt anyone else could.
Laurie MtnGalPal I am glad that Michael is doing this. Next you will have to read and research about the Frankfurt School, Adorno, etc. Critical Philosophy is very important not even for thinking about politics but for anybody who wants to take the veil about the systems of power that keep us running in this hamster wheel called capitalist society.
There is a via Gramsci in every Italian town , city, and hamlet and yet, no one has ever heard of him in the US probably for cultural reasons.I am pleased that some Americans are discovering Antonio Gramsci ,one of the most important Italian statesman or the 20th century.
@@naimkozi3767 @K-nice It is believed that the paternal ancestors of Antonio emigrated to Italy from a town called Gramshi in Albania in the late 16th century. So, after twelve generations, it would be a stretch to say that Antonio was an ethnic Albanian. However , he did have a nice head of hair. From Italian Historical Sources: Gli antenati paterni di Antonio Gramsci erano originari della città di Gramshi in Albania, e potrebbero essere giunti in Italia fin dal XVI secolo, durante la diaspora albanese causata dall'invasione turca.
King Alfonso V of Aragon (as Alfonso I of Naples) made Gaeta his beachhead for the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1435, besieged it, and to his own disadvantage displayed great generosity, by aiding those unable to bear arms who had been driven out from the besieged town. After a disastrous naval battle he captured it, and gained control of the kingdom. He enlarged the castle, which became his royal palace, and created a mint. In 1451 the city was home to the Treaty of Gaeta, stipulated between Alfonso V and the Albanian lord, Skanderbeg: the treaty ensured protection of the Albanian lands in exchange for political suzerainty of Skanderbeg to Alfonso.[5] --------.>Perhaps not much of a stretch-maybe a little yoga. Antonio Gramsci's father was born in Gaeta Italy(Arberesh village)-, he was an Arberesh Albanian they tend to marry their own. There are still many Arberesh villages in southern Italy that still marry with Arberesh still speak the language after over 500 years. Even Sardinia has many medieval Albanians there but many mixed and speak Sardo now. My name is Naim I was born in the U.S. my family is from Albania and my cousins wife is from Gramsci Albania.
@@naimkozi3767 Very interesting story. Sounds a lot like mine. My paternal and maternal ancestors were from Celle di San Vito, Provence of Foggia, in the Region of Puglia. Celle along with Faeto is one of two villages in the area where the inhabitants speak "Francoprovenzale", an obscure dialect dating back to the time of the Crusades. Faeto was on the old Roman road ( Via Francigena) which passed from western Europe thru Italy to the sea ports of Puglia. In 1274, Charles of Anjou established a military community in Celle di San Vito to serve as a way station for travelers to the Holy Land. The inhabitants still speak French to this day.I suppose that would make me an Italian American of French ethnicity or something .
Gramsci’s critique on the culture of the Soviet Union is actually my favorite critique because not only is it valid and true, but it seems to be a proto argument for a cultural revolution in a sense, of getting rid of reactionary and consumerist culture, I actually like Gramsci very much and I have his works as birthday gift, I can’t wait to read them.
Richard D. Wolff is a national treasure. Have several of his books published by Routledge, namely the ones he co-wrote with Stephen A. Resnick. We are truly living in a great time in America when a Marxist economist has a popular channel on TH-cam!
He is a treasure for the constant intellectual beating he gets when debating people from different view points. It takes a hard diamond to take all those bearings and not crack
@@DanielBurtonDidYourWife Sorry I was just ignorant to the details. They were actually talking about an old country song that apparently the Dead Kennedys did a cover of, "Take This Job and Shove It"
I wouldn't say that. Divide and conquer is based on Julius Caesar's quote. It's about dividing up a large concentration into smaller pieces. Kind of like breaking up large corporate monopolies. Seems more of a positive thing on the economic plain.
@@lindenstromberg6859 In order to prevent people from organizing and becoming a real threat to the ruling/capitalist class, individuals are put into permanent competiton. Just think about how far solidarity with your fellow workers (assuming, they have not already significantly organized) gets you vs. sheer ruthlessness and competiveness. Also, (smaller) managers are often trained to detect and prevent any form of organization, be it forming a labour union or a workers council.
@@saschar.8736 I suppose that fits the analogy as well... although in a much more negative light than how it was in my post. A unity of individuals, co-operation, is something that works strongly. At the same time, a healthy environment of collaborative competition between ideas and methodology brings out the best in us all. A lack of good leadership on issues such as environmental re-vitalization, healthcare expansion, scientific advancement, can lead to a lot of very negative outcomes, though.
@severi saaristo I think that goes beyond the scope of capitalism, that's getting into foreign policy territory, warfare, and espionage. Which is far more sinister. Perhaps that sort of policy results from capitalism, but I wouldn't say it's synonymous since many capitalist nations have never done such things.
circa 1920, wrote "Humanity has a choice in the twentieth century : do we continue to serve the machines and masters or do we stand, work and live as equals? That should not be a difficult choice for most people" Gramsci's question, almost a century later is still as valid.
Mixing with the real big boys Michael.......my kudos....the Wolffman is a hoot and comands all of my respect when he speaks! You are a very credible voice for the rational folks left in our society. Thank you for all you do.............Bobby D
I would mention, Jazz Artists! Which is many original styles today. I've always loved, the German, ECM Records, and all the musicians that are and have been on it. Charles Lloyd for example. Richie Beirach, John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland.....
There's still some lefty country musicians, like Ryan Bingham, Ray Wylie Hubbard, etc. Not a whole lot, but they do still exist in the indie country scene.
I find it funny that pete buttigieg father was a professor at notre dame and his area of specialization was Gramsci. He was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as its president.
Gramsci is one of the greatest thinker of the 20th century. Unfortunately , in the West especially in America nobody know about him due American Propaganda . He is one my hero growing up .
"And let's stop this talk of them because the things we find deplorable in politicians, CEOs and cops are the same things that will tear ourselves apart. And let's stop this talk of words because words like dishonesty selfishness and laziness and greed aren't as distance to us as we'd like to believe to believe." "I don't want solidarity if it means holding hands with you" - Defiance, Ohio Gramsci is such a massively important thinker. Wish more Marxists would read em. A huge part of what causes the conflict between statist Marxists and libertarian socialists (including some Marxists) is that so many Marxists either ignore or downplay the non economic aspects of the world while others (especially anarchists) are very focused on that and put a lot of effort into breaking authoritarian social relationships and the like. The "Super Structure" is a major aspect of human existence and ignoring it gets up right where we are now. Join your local or an international and don't EVER cross a picket line! The right has this mastered. Past time to counter.
Though it wasnt far fetched thinking trump wouldn't want to leave if he loses his reelection bid, still crazy to reflect on this clip now in 2021. RIP MB.
if hegemony means dominance I think it would be less confusing to just use the word dominance. I praise Richard Wolff for his ability to make things easy to understand. Use words that are simple and direct. It helps me a lot.
Funny about country music, I had a professor at university from Nigeria and I always wanted to talk to him about African music and Sunny Ade and he would only want to talk about American country music which he loved, I realized the two cultural musics were similar in the sense of what they sang about and the struggles in each culture.
Mister Democracy That is why we need a better minimum wage, healthcare, better public schools, a basic universal income, etc., so we can use our free time on Earth to cultivate ourselves and our minds to really BE FREE.
So basicly, capitalism got destroyed once earlier. But bcoz, ppl didnt got understanding of hegemony , eventhough, they belonged, to labour unions etc. The same order only recreated itself, in form of, Keynesian system of coz, but also scandinavian social democracy. Through the educating of ppl about what is hegemony, and only through that ,we can create the new system.
The first time I have heard any one in the indep media outside of Dr. Barber OF COURSE addressing what has been worrying. When are we.going to Join Forces! Naturally it's Dr. Wolff that helps us again.
Super exposition Richard, but, coming from a class divided and now deindustrialised UK, I wonder if hegemonic alliances with middle class dominated movements doesn´t lead to the dilution of working class cohesion ans solidarity, ending with the middle class colonising and taking over the enterprise. The takeover of Kier Hardy´s Labour Party from the 1930s onwards, ending with the defeat of the miners in 1984, followed by Blair in the 1980s, seems a good example; the middle classes have sharper elbows and capital is patient.
They praise the Chicago Teachers Union and their strike. Well, while they were on strike, I was helping over 30 kids finish their college applications. Teachers wouldn't even give up a half a day to help out their students. I found it rather pathetic.
Some extremely questionable statements. Gramsci was not made to sleep in a coffin (as a Sardinian I can confirm that that would be awful and bring extreme bad luck), although his mother did buy the coffin and a suit for his funeral while he was still a child. He did not come from a poor family, his father was a middle class functionary who was accused of embezzlement so they were down on their luck. I visited the family home in Ghilarza and it was quite "luxurious" (indoor plumbing!!!). The notebooks were not smuggled out, but he was permitted to send them home to his family when he fell ill and was sent to hospital. The notebooks were regularly inspected when he was in prison though, so probably influenced by some "auto-censorship".
@@grmpEqweer or maybe just naive and misguided idealism. The second time I read Atlas Shrugged, I thought John Galt had a messiah quality that was both inappropriate and hypocritical. Idealism is often the enemy of practicality. Whether you're Marx or Rand, this is true.
@@commonmancrypto1648 I chip away at learning theory. My thought on theory goes to the saying: "No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy." IOW, theory and analysis are good, but will be adapted or thrown out in practice, as the people all decide.
this is a great talk but there's one issue: richad's comment that we need to "rush towards" any available alliance, I think, is short sighted. A lot of the destruction of the original leftist coalition was perpetrated by these "allies;" feminists, corporate purveyors of idpol, etc. I don't think these people will make good allies; I've spent years in academy trying to get them to organize around class issues but a lot of their attitudes are that "its our time to be 'on top'"-- they are lost to consumerism and they don't understand the goals of the working class (because most of these non-class-based political activists don't come from the working class). I think we should be very careful who we ally with in the near-term future. A bunch of "I'm With Her" feminists will do much more harm than good to this movement
The ad for a lifetime membership on household products is illegal. Although I like the concept ion eliminating the supply chain. It could work under socialism but not under capitalism because the factory from which the household products are produced is privately owned not socially owned but the producers. Congress made it illegal when Arthur Murray dance studios sold lifetime contracts to people in the 20th century. How does an ad like this get on the Michael Brooks Show?
WW1 was a big game changer. The bourgeois state following WW1 expanded greatly in Italy, Germany etc. E.G. the Spartacists were put down as German officers returned from the frontline. The Spartacists may have had popular support, but the bourgeois had guns and military training. Same thing in Italy with Mussolini's Black Shirts . And we shouldn't forget that in Western industrialized countries, that the bourgeois are not so exposed. They have large petty bourgeoisies to call upon for support. Plus lackey ideological workers such as cops and soldiers, who place themselves above the average working stiff. For a revolution to happen in Western countries, it would be necessary to recruit the military and the police to the cause of socialism. A difficult proposition, because ideological workers have a vested interest in supporting capitalism, given without capitalism, they'd probably be out of a job. .
Focus on the Lumpen proletariat they can be radicalize easily, and I would argue that you need to find memeber of the military that have been disillusioned by the false narratives of American freedom
Red Shirts were of course Garibaldi's army. Sorry my mistake. But the fact remains that the Italian Left were beaten back by the Black Shirts a combination of reactionary WW1 veterans, landowners and Right-wing intellectuals. The strong military element being the deciding factor in the conflict.
Which is always the case, factory owners and landowners always have their goons. But whether they are goons or not, they end up winning. Which is something the Left needs to understand. As much as we might sympathise with gays, lesbians, minorities etc, they don't win civil wars. Which is why winning over the working class is of paramount importance, and should always come before winning over other oppressed groups. Instead of calling such people goons, perhaps we need to start enticing them with higher wages, pensions and the like. Maybe the Left needs to start venerating soldiers and cops etc. Hard to do, I know.
If hegemonic alliances can unravel, that has been even more true of counter-hegemonic ones. To put it at its most basic, they work hard at unravelling counter-hegemonic alliances whenever they see them (often relying, in partial vindication of Gramsci, on cultural factors) but, by and large, we don't. See, for example, the Daily Mail, as adept at unravelling nascent counter-hegemonic alliances now as it was when supporting fascism in the 1930s. Patriotism is a handy unravelling tool. Religion was mentioned as a factor in hegemonic alliance. At least it's one which works in the USA. Looking at the USA, am I wrong to see religion also being used to divide and unravel counter-hegemonic alliances? It wouldn't work in Europe (at least most of Europe) where religion is far too marginal to be used in either way, but that's not true of the USA. Another unravelling tool, which I wouldn't have credited 10 years ago but know better now, is disruptive, alienating infiltration. I mean I wouldn't have credited the sheer scale of the operations, the resources devoted to them and the innocuous nature of some of the targets until it all came tumbling out. The cover-up operation (cynically referred to as a "public enquiry") has been only partially successful, but there are probably yet more layers still unacknowledged. The devious manufacturing of the Brexit vote was a prime example of the hegemonic culture mobilised, much as it is around Trump. It looks rather like the Brexit reality will cause the sort of unravelling Richard Wolff mentions. So can we just sit on our hands and wait for that to happen? NO! That's what we've done all my political lifetime (of nearly 60 years). Whenever we saw a hegemonic alliance we've basically muttered or written "inherent contradictions" and moved on,, while such counter-hegemonic alliances as we've bothered to form have been disrupted time after time. That needs to end now. It's time for us to be disrupters in whatever ways we can.
While I’m sure there is something I’m missing, none of the less this got me thinking the need for the outsider(s) for the needed change in rising crisis. Or at the least recognizing an inherently pathetic attitudes of not doing simple fix in institutions while misconstruing the nuances of situations as hurtle to do it or using that as reason it will take longer than it should.
Its easy to exploit human selfishness and use it to your advantage . Unfortunately those willing to do so always seem to wind up governing everyone else's lives and managing the resources we use to live those lives
I think the students little tinge of disliking what you taught then was their conscience. I'm a former holder critical consciousness, it is a wrong solution to a problem.
Was jazz or blues music left-wing? Since Bill Clinton was not a progressive BUT played the saxophone so was their a cultural left movement brewing? I’m just wondering?
The irony of watching Brooks and Wolff talk ... then a weasel touting getting rich without accomplishing anything of the slightest social value 'you make money doing NOTHING', he says, as if that's admirable. And yeah, sometimes my disdain for Trump is overshadowed by my finding him funny. Like Dr. Strangelove funny. If America survives (iffy) there are going to be some pretty good movies made on this topic. Maybe by the elderly Coen brothers, since Kubrick is dead.
Prof. Wolff never told us what Gramsci discovered in his effort to understand why the working class, which has the power, don't use it. In the discussion, Wolff seemed to say that the connection of the Italian working class to the Church took the will to arise out of them, but he did not dwell on the subject. What did Gramsci conclude? We are not told. By the way, the 18th century French philosophe , Condorcet, said the same thing: that the mass of people have the power but they don't use it.
"why do we want to live in a boom and bust...?" you are born in it, and told daily that it's much better than other societies. any other inane questions? a more interesting question is "how do some people wake up and find their native land filled with injustice and headed for disaster?" unfortunately, no single answer, but there are several common responses: 1. dispatched to combat and discovering usa is covering bamboo farm houses with napalm and poison dust, because there might be a communist sympathizer in one of those houses. . 2. you live in foreign lands and discover their ideas and ideals make better sense. 3. you are walking across a lively square in an old city when suddenly your glances lock-on, and over successive months you revise your thinking to ensure this happiness continues. 4. a severe injury makes you a book devourer for a year, and you find that the approved reading of your school years was a mixture of nonsense and lies. there are other paths to enlightenment, and i recommend all of them. doesn't lead to contentment necessarily, one-eyed person in a blind world, but no. 3 is usually rewarding. better to stay in motion than settle for the government approved school book. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains". by rosa luxemburgh, a smart and brave lady.
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Gramsci supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks long after their illegal coup to seize power from the provisional government (which was planning to hold elections only 2 months later), the closure of opposition press in 1918 (the beginning of political repression), Lenin’s 1921 ban on factions (formalising the one party state) and the “Red Terror” (mass political violence and authoritarianism). Why is it that the same Marxists who utterly reject any attempt to discuss past socialist regimes in relation to possible flaws with their ideology, then go on to borrow theory from people who LITERALLY supported those regimes as contemporaries? Imagine how Michael Brooks would treat a right wing pundit that had lengthy favourable discussions with guests about a Conservative from the 1930s who just so happened to support the Italian and German Fascists.
"why do we want to live in a boom and bust...?" you are born in it, and told daily that it's much better than other societies. any other inane questions? a more interesting question is "how do some people wake up and find their native land filled with injustice and headed for disaster?" unfortunately, no single answer, but there are several common responses: 1. dispatched to combat and discovering usa is covering bamboo farm houses with napalm and poison dust, because there might be a communist sympathizer in one of those houses. . 2. you live in foreign lands and discover their ideas and ideals make better sense. 3. you are walking across a lively square in an old city when suddenly your glances lock-on, and over successive months you revise your thinking to ensure this happiness continues. 4. a severe injury makes you a book devourer for a year, and you find that the approved reading of your school years was a mixture of nonsense and lies. there are other paths to enlightenment, and i recommend all of them. doesn't lead to contentment necessarily, one-eyed person in a blind world, but no. 3 is usually rewarding. better to stay in motion than settle for the government approved school book. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains". by rosa luxemburgh, a smart and brave lady.
I asked Gramsci to come on The Rubin Report and debate Sargon on Cultural Marxism and he never responded. It's a shame because I actually like his channel.
You spelled Rave Dubin incorrectly
@@jammieflaps Block you up
I just wanted to have an exchange of Ideas maybe a seance?!
It's awful how the left uses being dead as an excuse not to debate ideas.
Dave Rubin Please share a link to Gramsci’s youtube channel...
Dear Mr Wolff -I am a big fan of your clarity of thought -and the way you talk directly to your audience - explaining Gramsci. Thank you sir-for introducing me to Gramsci-in a manner, I doubt anyone else could.
I knew nothing about Gramsci before watching this and what a great introduction! Thanks, you guys!
Laurie MtnGalPal
I am glad that Michael is doing this.
Next you will have to read and research about the Frankfurt School, Adorno, etc. Critical Philosophy is very important not even for thinking about politics but for anybody who wants to take the veil about the systems of power that keep us running in this hamster wheel called capitalist society.
Michael does somethings that I' dd like to call: passionate listening. Great guy!
You'd like to, but you may not. I've got the trademark on that phrase. You already owe me a bong toke for your use of it up there. Pay up!
There is a via Gramsci in every Italian town , city, and hamlet and yet, no one has ever heard of him in the US probably for cultural reasons.I am pleased that some Americans are discovering Antonio Gramsci ,one of the most important Italian statesman or the 20th century.
Gramsci was an Italian national and Albanian by ethnicity
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@K-nice It is believed that the paternal ancestors of Antonio emigrated to Italy from a town called Gramshi in Albania in the late 16th century. So, after twelve generations, it would be a stretch to say that Antonio was an ethnic Albanian. However , he did have a nice head of hair.
From Italian Historical Sources:
Gli antenati paterni di Antonio Gramsci erano originari della città di Gramshi in Albania, e potrebbero essere giunti in Italia fin dal XVI secolo, durante la diaspora albanese causata dall'invasione turca.
King Alfonso V of Aragon (as Alfonso I of Naples) made Gaeta his beachhead for the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1435, besieged it, and to his own disadvantage displayed great generosity, by aiding those unable to bear arms who had been driven out from the besieged town. After a disastrous naval battle he captured it, and gained control of the kingdom. He enlarged the castle, which became his royal palace, and created a mint. In 1451 the city was home to the Treaty of Gaeta, stipulated between Alfonso V and the Albanian lord, Skanderbeg: the treaty ensured protection of the Albanian lands in exchange for political suzerainty of Skanderbeg to Alfonso.[5] --------.>Perhaps not much of a stretch-maybe a little yoga.
Antonio Gramsci's father was born in Gaeta Italy(Arberesh village)-, he was an Arberesh Albanian they tend to marry their own. There are still many Arberesh villages in southern Italy that still marry with Arberesh still speak the language after over 500 years. Even Sardinia has many medieval Albanians there but many mixed and speak Sardo now.
My name is Naim I was born in the U.S. my family is from Albania and my cousins wife is from Gramsci Albania.
Plataci is another Arberesh village in Calabria
@@naimkozi3767 Very interesting story. Sounds a lot like mine. My paternal and maternal ancestors were from Celle di San Vito, Provence of Foggia, in the Region of Puglia. Celle along with Faeto is one of two villages in the area where the inhabitants speak "Francoprovenzale", an obscure dialect dating back to the time of the Crusades. Faeto was on the old Roman road ( Via Francigena) which passed from western Europe thru Italy to the sea ports of Puglia. In 1274, Charles of Anjou established a military community in Celle di San Vito to serve as a way station for travelers to the Holy Land. The inhabitants still speak French to this day.I suppose that would make me an Italian American of French ethnicity or something .
First time watching Richard Wolff !!! I surely learned a lot !!! Alliances,Alliances,Alliances
Richard Wolff and The ChapoTrapHouse boys? Your show is killing it with the quality of guests.
Richard Wolff is always a gem
Gramsci’s critique on the culture of the Soviet Union is actually my favorite critique because not only is it valid and true, but it seems to be a proto argument for a cultural revolution in a sense, of getting rid of reactionary and consumerist culture, I actually like Gramsci very much and I have his works as birthday gift, I can’t wait to read them.
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Yay you recognize the pic. You a fan of his music?
@@Psychedlia98 yea... and his philosophical precepts, I just checked out your channel very interesting stuff
@@gamalielfasakin9700 thanks
Listening to Wolfe reminds me about many of the things I loved about college.
Time to work on our counter-hegemonies 👍
Richard D. Wolff is a national treasure. Have several of his books published by Routledge, namely the ones he co-wrote with
Stephen A. Resnick. We are truly living in a great time in America when a Marxist economist has a popular channel on TH-cam!
He is a treasure for the constant intellectual beating he gets when debating people from different view points. It takes a hard diamond to take all those bearings and not crack
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@@bgorg1in Wolff's defense, he is representing indefensible ideas, so....
Richard Wolff referencing Dead Kennedys is probably the highlight of my day
He did!? That totally went over my head. What moment and what did he say specifically?
@@DanielBurtonDidYourWife Sorry I was just ignorant to the details. They were actually talking about an old country song that apparently the Dead Kennedys did a cover of, "Take This Job and Shove It"
The capitalist method: divide and conquer
I wouldn't say that. Divide and conquer is based on Julius Caesar's quote. It's about dividing up a large concentration into smaller pieces. Kind of like breaking up large corporate monopolies. Seems more of a positive thing on the economic plain.
@@lindenstromberg6859 nah. Divide labour by identity is a real political strategy
@@lindenstromberg6859 In order to prevent people from organizing and becoming a real threat to the ruling/capitalist class, individuals are put into permanent competiton. Just think about how far solidarity with your fellow workers (assuming, they have not already significantly organized) gets you vs. sheer ruthlessness and competiveness.
Also, (smaller) managers are often trained to detect and prevent any form of organization, be it forming a labour union or a workers council.
@@saschar.8736 I suppose that fits the analogy as well... although in a much more negative light than how it was in my post.
A unity of individuals, co-operation, is something that works strongly. At the same time, a healthy environment of collaborative competition between ideas and methodology brings out the best in us all.
A lack of good leadership on issues such as environmental re-vitalization, healthcare expansion, scientific advancement, can lead to a lot of very negative outcomes, though.
@severi saaristo I think that goes beyond the scope of capitalism, that's getting into foreign policy territory, warfare, and espionage. Which is far more sinister. Perhaps that sort of policy results from capitalism, but I wouldn't say it's synonymous since many capitalist nations have never done such things.
The best paper I ever wrote in my undergrad was about Gramsci and Occupy Wall Street. I love this stuff.
Wolff is such an amazing storyteller
circa 1920, wrote "Humanity has a choice in the twentieth century : do we continue to serve the machines and masters or do we stand, work and live as equals? That should not be a difficult choice for most people" Gramsci's question, almost a century later is still as valid.
Thank you for talking about the background of country and folk music. The entire presentation was very informative and interesting.
Thank you so much Michael for getting Richard Wolff to speak so frequently on your show.
I always associate the quote with Michael now.
Gunna miss him.
Outstanding episode.
Thank you
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Deconstructing the superstructures... To outmaneuver our opponent we must understand their tactics and develop new alliances.
Mixing with the real big boys Michael.......my kudos....the Wolffman is a hoot and comands all of my respect when he speaks! You are a very credible voice for the rational folks left in our society. Thank you for all you do.............Bobby D
God I miss Michael
Same
I would mention, Jazz Artists! Which is many original styles today. I've always loved, the German, ECM Records, and all the musicians that are and have been on it. Charles Lloyd for example. Richie Beirach, John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland.....
There's still some lefty country musicians, like Ryan Bingham, Ray Wylie Hubbard, etc. Not a whole lot, but they do still exist in the indie country scene.
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch, Hurray for the riff raff?
Gotta platform them (as Wolff said).
Very enlightening discussion...... thanks
Gotta love at 15:08 where Micheal asks "How do we build counter-hegemony" like a student getting his mind blown
I find it funny that pete buttigieg father was a professor at notre dame and his area of specialization was Gramsci. He was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as its president.
No way...
Gramsci is one of the greatest thinker of the 20th century. Unfortunately , in the West especially in America nobody know about him due American Propaganda . He is one my hero growing up .
@Filosofía Gaming no u
"And let's stop this talk of them because the things we find deplorable in politicians, CEOs and cops
are the same things that will tear ourselves apart.
And let's stop this talk of words because words like dishonesty selfishness and laziness and greed
aren't as distance to us as we'd like to believe
to believe."
"I don't want solidarity if it means holding hands with you" - Defiance, Ohio
Gramsci is such a massively important thinker. Wish more Marxists would read em. A huge part of what causes the conflict between statist Marxists and libertarian socialists (including some Marxists) is that so many Marxists either ignore or downplay the non economic aspects of the world while others (especially anarchists) are very focused on that and put a lot of effort into breaking authoritarian social relationships and the like. The "Super Structure" is a major aspect of human existence and ignoring it gets up right where we are now.
Join your local or an international and don't EVER cross a picket line! The right has this mastered. Past time to counter.
Great conversation on the need for counter-hegemony
Though it wasnt far fetched thinking trump wouldn't want to leave if he loses his reelection bid, still crazy to reflect on this clip now in 2021. RIP MB.
if hegemony means dominance I think it would be less confusing to just use the word dominance. I praise Richard Wolff for his ability to make things easy to understand. Use words that are simple and direct. It helps me a lot.
Funny about country music, I had a professor at university from Nigeria and I always wanted to talk to him about African music and Sunny Ade and he would only want to talk about American country music which he loved, I realized the two cultural musics were similar in the sense of what they sang about and the struggles in each culture.
I wish I read more
Mister Democracy
That is why we need a better minimum wage, healthcare, better public schools, a basic universal income, etc., so we can use our free time on Earth to cultivate ourselves and our minds to really BE FREE.
@@Etatdesiege1979 no, no state
Good convo.
Really kicks it into high gear at 6:09
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So basicly, capitalism got destroyed once earlier. But bcoz, ppl didnt got understanding of hegemony , eventhough, they belonged, to labour unions etc. The same order only recreated itself, in form of, Keynesian system of coz, but also scandinavian social democracy.
Through the educating of ppl about what is hegemony, and only through that ,we can create the new system.
This was excellent!! Thank you
"A modern question"? I think you mean... Post-Modern :O
IReally though, this is fascinating. I love when you have Richard on the show. 😊
The first time I have heard any one in the indep media outside of Dr. Barber OF COURSE addressing what has been worrying. When are we.going to Join Forces! Naturally it's Dr. Wolff that helps us again.
This Anarchist admires The Great Gransci!
Super exposition Richard, but, coming from a class divided and now deindustrialised UK, I wonder if hegemonic alliances with middle class dominated movements doesn´t lead to the dilution of working class cohesion ans solidarity, ending with the middle class colonising and taking over the enterprise. The takeover of Kier Hardy´s Labour Party from the 1930s onwards, ending with the defeat of the miners in 1984, followed by Blair in the 1980s, seems a good example; the middle classes have sharper elbows and capital is patient.
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Great show. Interesting point on the country music shift.
gr8 prog musicians: Billy Bragg, Anni Di Franco, rage against the machine, Joan Baez, CSN&Y, Santana; and, others.
Awareness is everything...
They praise the Chicago Teachers Union and their strike. Well, while they were on strike, I was helping over 30 kids finish their college applications. Teachers wouldn't even give up a half a day to help out their students. I found it rather pathetic.
Then complain to the school boards for working teachers to the effing bone.
RIP Michael
That was awesome, but you cost me $100 in books to study Gramsci. Guess majoring in philosophy is going to be helpful. Lol
Maybe I'm a bit late, but might I recommend library genesis for free books, if you're fine with reading from pdfs. It saved my ass in grad school lmao
Some extremely questionable statements. Gramsci was not made to sleep in a coffin (as a Sardinian I can confirm that that would be awful and bring extreme bad luck), although his mother did buy the coffin and a suit for his funeral while he was still a child. He did not come from a poor family, his father was a middle class functionary who was accused of embezzlement so they were down on their luck. I visited the family home in Ghilarza and it was quite "luxurious" (indoor plumbing!!!). The notebooks were not smuggled out, but he was permitted to send them home to his family when he fell ill and was sent to hospital. The notebooks were regularly inspected when he was in prison though, so probably influenced by some "auto-censorship".
Thanks for the clarifications
But who is John Galt?
A really stupid superhero in a novel written by a really dreadful person, who wasn't even a very good writer?
Selfishness as a religion...
@@grmpEqweer or maybe just naive and misguided idealism. The second time I read Atlas Shrugged, I thought John Galt had a messiah quality that was both inappropriate and hypocritical.
Idealism is often the enemy of practicality. Whether you're Marx or Rand, this is true.
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I chip away at learning theory.
My thought on theory goes to the saying: "No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."
IOW, theory and analysis are good, but will be adapted or thrown out in practice, as the people all decide.
The Devil Makes Three has some great American folk songs lambasting Capitalism, check it out
this is a great talk but there's one issue: richad's comment that we need to "rush towards" any available alliance, I think, is short sighted. A lot of the destruction of the original leftist coalition was perpetrated by these "allies;" feminists, corporate purveyors of idpol, etc. I don't think these people will make good allies; I've spent years in academy trying to get them to organize around class issues but a lot of their attitudes are that "its our time to be 'on top'"-- they are lost to consumerism and they don't understand the goals of the working class (because most of these non-class-based political activists don't come from the working class). I think we should be very careful who we ally with in the near-term future. A bunch of "I'm With Her" feminists will do much more harm than good to this movement
fantastic
Fxcking brilliant
Like The Video damn it!
I love Bernie but he doesn’t get this at all!
Does anyone have a citation on Waylon supporting AIM? I really want it to be true, but I can't find that on the internet...
This is like the Jack Van Impe of politics
The ad for a lifetime membership on household products is illegal. Although I like the concept ion eliminating the supply chain. It could work under socialism but not under capitalism because the factory from which the household products are produced is privately owned not socially owned but the producers. Congress made it illegal when Arthur Murray dance studios sold lifetime contracts to people in the 20th century. How does an ad like this get on the Michael Brooks Show?
HEY! To whoever produced the video.
Interested in the intro music.
WW1 was a big game changer. The bourgeois state following WW1 expanded greatly in Italy, Germany etc.
E.G. the Spartacists were put down as German officers returned from the frontline. The Spartacists may have had popular support, but the bourgeois had guns and military training.
Same thing in Italy with Mussolini's Black Shirts .
And we shouldn't forget that in Western industrialized countries, that the bourgeois are not so exposed. They have large petty bourgeoisies to call upon for support. Plus lackey ideological workers such as cops and soldiers, who place themselves above the average working stiff.
For a revolution to happen in Western countries, it would be necessary to recruit the military and the police to the cause of socialism. A difficult proposition, because ideological workers have a vested interest in supporting capitalism, given without capitalism, they'd probably be out of a job. .
Focus on the Lumpen proletariat they can be radicalize easily, and I would argue that you need to find memeber of the military that have been disillusioned by the false narratives of American freedom
Red Shirts were of course Garibaldi's army. Sorry my mistake. But the fact remains that the Italian Left were beaten back by the Black Shirts a combination of reactionary WW1 veterans, landowners and Right-wing intellectuals. The strong military element being the deciding factor in the conflict.
Which is always the case, factory owners and landowners always have their goons.
But whether they are goons or not, they end up winning. Which is something the Left needs to understand.
As much as we might sympathise with gays, lesbians, minorities etc, they don't win civil wars.
Which is why winning over the working class is of paramount importance, and should always come before winning over other oppressed groups.
Instead of calling such people goons, perhaps we need to start enticing them with higher wages, pensions and the like.
Maybe the Left needs to start venerating soldiers and cops etc.
Hard to do, I know.
@tiglath pileser No, they are class traitors, to seek their help is foolish, only if they are disillusioned
@tiglath pileser they will come to the Left only after the reaction of power under pressure bites their ass... Not one minute sooner.
If hegemonic alliances can unravel, that has been even more true of counter-hegemonic ones. To put it at its most basic, they work hard at unravelling counter-hegemonic alliances whenever they see them (often relying, in partial vindication of Gramsci, on cultural factors) but, by and large, we don't. See, for example, the Daily Mail, as adept at unravelling nascent counter-hegemonic alliances now as it was when supporting fascism in the 1930s.
Patriotism is a handy unravelling tool. Religion was mentioned as a factor in hegemonic alliance. At least it's one which works in the USA. Looking at the USA, am I wrong to see religion also being used to divide and unravel counter-hegemonic alliances? It wouldn't work in Europe (at least most of Europe) where religion is far too marginal to be used in either way, but that's not true of the USA.
Another unravelling tool, which I wouldn't have credited 10 years ago but know better now, is disruptive, alienating infiltration. I mean I wouldn't have credited the sheer scale of the operations, the resources devoted to them and the innocuous nature of some of the targets until it all came tumbling out. The cover-up operation (cynically referred to as a "public enquiry") has been only partially successful, but there are probably yet more layers still unacknowledged.
The devious manufacturing of the Brexit vote was a prime example of the hegemonic culture mobilised, much as it is around Trump. It looks rather like the Brexit reality will cause the sort of unravelling Richard Wolff mentions. So can we just sit on our hands and wait for that to happen? NO! That's what we've done all my political lifetime (of nearly 60 years). Whenever we saw a hegemonic alliance we've basically muttered or written "inherent contradictions" and moved on,, while such counter-hegemonic alliances as we've bothered to form have been disrupted time after time.
That needs to end now. It's time for us to be disrupters in whatever ways we can.
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While I’m sure there is something I’m missing, none of the less this got me thinking the need for the outsider(s) for the needed change in rising crisis. Or at the least recognizing an inherently pathetic attitudes of not doing simple fix in institutions while misconstruing the nuances of situations as hurtle to do it or using that as reason it will take longer than it should.
You must comply. If you don't we will force you and shame you.
Its easy to exploit human selfishness and use it to your advantage . Unfortunately those willing to do so always seem to wind up governing everyone else's lives and managing the resources we use to live those lives
I think the students little tinge of disliking what you taught then was their conscience.
I'm a former holder critical consciousness, it is a wrong solution to a problem.
He was Sardinian
It's me the sequel.
Ahh yes the classic Richard Wolfe who says a lot without saying anything at all.
And you even less.
Was jazz or blues music left-wing? Since Bill Clinton was not a progressive BUT played the saxophone so was their a cultural left movement brewing? I’m just wondering?
The irony of watching Brooks and Wolff talk ... then a weasel touting getting rich without accomplishing anything of the slightest social value 'you make money doing NOTHING', he says, as if that's admirable.
And yeah, sometimes my disdain for Trump is overshadowed by my finding him funny. Like Dr. Strangelove funny. If America survives (iffy) there are going to be some pretty good movies made on this topic. Maybe by the elderly Coen brothers, since Kubrick is dead.
Prof. Wolff never told us what Gramsci discovered in his effort to understand why the working class, which has the power, don't use it. In the discussion, Wolff seemed to say that the connection of the Italian working class to the Church took the will to arise out of them, but he did not dwell on the subject. What did Gramsci conclude? We are not told. By the way, the 18th century French philosophe , Condorcet, said the same thing: that the mass of people have the power but they don't use it.
How am I watching a PragerPoo video before a Richard Wolff/Michael Brooks clip?
"why do we want to live in a boom and bust...?" you are born in it, and told daily that it's much better than other societies.
any other inane questions?
a more interesting question is "how do some people wake up and find their native land filled with injustice and headed for disaster?"
unfortunately, no single answer, but there are several common responses:
1. dispatched to combat and discovering usa is covering bamboo farm houses with napalm and poison dust, because there might be a communist sympathizer in one of those houses. .
2. you live in foreign lands and discover their ideas and ideals make better sense.
3. you are walking across a lively square in an old city when suddenly your glances lock-on, and over successive months you revise your thinking to ensure this happiness continues.
4. a severe injury makes you a book devourer for a year, and you find that the approved reading of your school years was a mixture of nonsense and lies.
there are other paths to enlightenment, and i recommend all of them. doesn't lead to contentment necessarily, one-eyed person in a blind world, but no. 3
is usually rewarding. better to stay in motion than settle for the government approved school book.
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains". by rosa luxemburgh, a smart and brave lady.
Gramsci was influenced by Giovanni Gentile. But you guys won't mention that.
Thanks for the name.
Bordiga > Grasmsci
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Gramsci supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks long after their illegal coup to seize power from the provisional government (which was planning to hold elections only 2 months later), the closure of opposition press in 1918 (the beginning of political repression), Lenin’s 1921 ban on factions (formalising the one party state) and the “Red Terror” (mass political violence and authoritarianism).
Why is it that the same Marxists who utterly reject any attempt to discuss past socialist regimes in relation to possible flaws with their ideology, then go on to borrow theory from people who LITERALLY supported those regimes as contemporaries? Imagine how Michael Brooks would treat a right wing pundit that had lengthy favourable discussions with guests about a Conservative from the 1930s who just so happened to support the Italian and German Fascists.
tiglath pileser shut the fuck up tankie
The Amazing Autist shut the fuck up liberal
Can someone give me a TLDR?
No
My Question to Mr. Wolff is Stalin, Mao, Pol pat an even Xi Jinping all Marxist any better?
Köööökpöpö
Good convo.
"why do we want to live in a boom and bust...?" you are born in it, and told daily that it's much better than other societies.
any other inane questions?
a more interesting question is "how do some people wake up and find their native land filled with injustice and headed for disaster?"
unfortunately, no single answer, but there are several common responses:
1. dispatched to combat and discovering usa is covering bamboo farm houses with napalm and poison dust, because there might be a communist sympathizer in one of those houses. .
2. you live in foreign lands and discover their ideas and ideals make better sense.
3. you are walking across a lively square in an old city when suddenly your glances lock-on, and over successive months you revise your thinking to ensure this happiness continues.
4. a severe injury makes you a book devourer for a year, and you find that the approved reading of your school years was a mixture of nonsense and lies.
there are other paths to enlightenment, and i recommend all of them. doesn't lead to contentment necessarily, one-eyed person in a blind world, but no. 3
is usually rewarding. better to stay in motion than settle for the government approved school book.
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains". by rosa luxemburgh, a smart and brave lady.