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  •  Ahh-- hahaha! (1+ / 0-)

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    Cassiodorus

    I meant, as in how Marx is to be read, as a historian or as an economist?

    And yes, those of us into... interdisciplinarity, do indeed tend to heart our Gramsci... to whatever degree... though that doesn't always translate into a mention by name. Thus the conclusion of your boldness. Generally, I find that G's more like... invoked, when one wants to "do" hegemony for a moment, like one invokes Foucault before going all "body" on something, for example. On the way to somewhere else, undoubtedly.

    Or so it seems to me.

    BTW, I hear some of the anarchos are out to "get" Gramsci now, as one of the largest remaining red threats to, um.... anarcho hegemony, let's say, on the far left.

    But will that help get Dems elected? :-)

    Stay tuned to... As the Thread Turns!

    "the people have the power to redeem the work of fools" --Patti Smith

    by Immigrant Punk on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 03:20:05 PM PDT

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    •  Probably more a historian than an economist (1+ / 0-)

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      I thought Capital was intended more as an "anti-economics" than a treatise on economics... Marx is saying to the economists of his era, both in volume 1 and in volume 3, look, your whole house of cards will eventually collapse.

      Now, me, generally in arguments on history I tend to side with Kees van der Pijl, generally regarded as a neo-Gramscian, whose book Transnational Classes and International Relations can be read as an elaboration of a portion of The German Ideology...

      "Imagine all the people/ Sharing all the world" -- John Lennon

      by Cassiodorus on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 03:37:54 PM PDT

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