Is Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1971) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 91 / 100 (very WOKE (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.
14 votes: 93% WOKE, 7% CHUD.
Why: Marxist theory of hegemony
Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks of history and analysis during his imprisonment. These writings, known as the Prison Notebooks, contain Gramsci's tracing of Italian history and nationalism, as well as some ideas in critical theory and educational theory associated with his name. With cultural hegemony Gramsci developed an idea from Marxism into an acute analysis to explain why the "inevitable" revolution of the proletariat predicted by orthodox Marxism had not occurred by the early 20th century. Rather, capitalism seemed even more entrenched than ever. Capitalism, Gramsci suggested, maintained control not just through violence and political and economic coercion, but also ideological…