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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 09:09, 1 November 2025&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Antonio Gramsci&#039;&#039;&#039; was an Italian Communist who developed the theory of [[Cultural Hegemony]], which states that the bourgeois ruling class has a hegemonic influence on culture, through its control over the Mainstream Media and institutions such as NGOs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Antonio Gramsci&#039;&#039;&#039; was an Italian Communist who developed the theory of [[Cultural Hegemony]], which states that the bourgeois ruling class has a hegemonic influence on culture, through its control over the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Mainstream Media&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;and institutions such as NGOs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci helped to found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1924, he became its secretary, taking over from his [[Left communism|left-communist]] enemy Amadeo Bordiga. He was succeeded by [[Palmiro Togliatti]], an [[Opportunism|opportunist]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci helped to found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1924, he became its secretary, taking over from his [[Left communism|left-communist]] enemy Amadeo Bordiga. He was succeeded by [[Palmiro Togliatti]], an [[Opportunism|opportunist]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Cultural Hegemony ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Cultural Hegemony ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cultural hegemony is expressed today through bourgeois culture promoted by Hollywood and the Mainstream Media. It is also enforced through cancel culture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cultural hegemony is expressed today through bourgeois culture promoted by Hollywood and the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Mainstream Media&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;. It is also enforced through cancel culture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Under [[bourgeois socialism]], the cultural hegemony is centrally managed by the government or [[Blackrock]]. Through state apparatuses like the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[State Department]], former [[Congress for Cultural Freedom|CCF]], [[NED]], [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] before [[DOGE]], and their affiliates like the [[Ford Foundation]] and [[George Soros]]&amp;#039;s Open Society Foundation, the US government spends billions each year promoting [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] narratives like &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Under [[bourgeois socialism]], the cultural hegemony is centrally managed by the government or [[Blackrock]]. Through state apparatuses like the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[State Department]], former [[Congress for Cultural Freedom|CCF]], [[NED]], [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] before [[DOGE]], and their affiliates like the [[Ford Foundation]] and [[George Soros]]&amp;#039;s Open Society Foundation, the US government spends billions each year promoting [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] narratives like &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Infrared draws heavily from Gramsci, including his notion of the &amp;#039;relative autonomy of the superstructure with regard to the base.&amp;#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Infrared draws heavily from Gramsci, including his notion of the &amp;#039;relative autonomy of the superstructure with regard to the base.&amp;#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;===See also===&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* [[Why the politicians want NUCLEAR WAR]]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Myths ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Myths ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>imported&gt;Azadsingh: /* Trotsky vs. Stalin */ added letter contents</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Antonio Gramsci&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was an Italian Communist who developed the theory of [[Cultural Hegemony]], which states that the bourgeois ruling class has a hegemonic influence on culture, through its control over the Mainstream Media and institutions such as NGOs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Antonio Gramsci&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was an Italian Communist who developed the theory of [[Cultural Hegemony]], which states that the bourgeois ruling class has a hegemonic influence on culture, through its control over the Mainstream Media and institutions such as NGOs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci helped to found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1924, he became its secretary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci helped to found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1924, he became its secretary&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, taking over from his [[Left communism|left-communist]] enemy Amadeo Bordiga. He was succeeded by [[Palmiro Togliatti]], an [[Opportunism|opportunist]]&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;From 1926, Gramsci was imprisoned and tortured by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]]&amp;#039;s Fascists. There, he wrote his Prison Notebooks. He died from sickness due to torture in 1937.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;From 1926, Gramsci was imprisoned and tortured by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]]&amp;#039;s Fascists. There, he wrote his Prison Notebooks. He died from sickness due to torture in 1937.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trotskyists have falsely claimed that Gramsci was sympathetic to Trotskyism, pointing to his letter to the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Comintern &lt;/del&gt;which (they claim) was &quot;protesting Stalin&#039;s campaign against the Left Opposition.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Leon Trotsky via Pioneer Publishers, &quot;What Is Fascism and How to Fight It&quot; (1944) https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trotskyists have falsely claimed that Gramsci was sympathetic to Trotskyism, pointing to his letter to the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;USSR &lt;/ins&gt;which (they claim) was &quot;protesting Stalin&#039;s campaign against the Left Opposition.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Leon Trotsky via Pioneer Publishers, &quot;What Is Fascism and How to Fight It&quot; (1944) https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In reality, Gramsci was completely pro-Stalin. He wrote in 1926, &quot;Our letter was a whole indictment of the opposition.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot;&amp;gt;Communist Platform - Gramsci, a Bolshevik. https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/10/communist-platform-gramsci-a-bolshevik/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In reality, Gramsci was completely pro-Stalin. He wrote in 1926, &quot;Our letter was a whole indictment of the opposition.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot;&amp;gt;Communist Platform - Gramsci, a Bolshevik. https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/10/communist-platform-gramsci-a-bolshevik/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;He compared his [[Left communism|leftcom]] rival Bordiga to Trotsky&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;saying &lt;/del&gt;that &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;both &quot;played a purely figurative role in &lt;/del&gt;the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Central Committee&lt;/del&gt;&quot; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;and created a &lt;/del&gt;&quot;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;factional situation&lt;/del&gt;&quot; with &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;disastrous repercussions&quot;. &amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot; /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Trotsky, although taking part ‘in a disciplined manner’ in &lt;/del&gt;the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;work &lt;/del&gt;of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/del&gt;party, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;had through his attitude of passive opposition – similar to Bordiga’s - created a state of unease throughout the Party&lt;/del&gt;, which &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;could not fail to get a whiff of this situation&lt;/del&gt;. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[…] This shows &lt;/del&gt;that &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;an opposition – even kept within &lt;/del&gt;the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;limits of &lt;/del&gt;a &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;formal discipline – on the part of exceptional personalities &lt;/del&gt;in the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;workers’ movement, can not merely hamper the development &lt;/del&gt;of the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;revolutionary situation, but can put in danger &lt;/del&gt;the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;very conquests &lt;/del&gt;of the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;revolution&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Only the introduction has been published for free online. In which&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Gramsci cautions against the possibility &lt;/ins&gt;that the &quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;oppositional minority&lt;/ins&gt;&quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, led by Trotsky, &lt;/ins&gt;&quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;does not accept &lt;/ins&gt;with the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;greatest loyalty the fundamental principles &lt;/ins&gt;of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;revolutionary &lt;/ins&gt;party &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;discipline&quot;&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;and &quot;in carrying on its polemics and struggle&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it goes beyond certain limits &lt;/ins&gt;which &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;are above all formal democracy&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot; He feared &lt;/ins&gt;that the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Russian Communist Party was &quot;in danger&quot; because the &quot;international bourgeois ... are counting on &lt;/ins&gt;a &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;split &lt;/ins&gt;in &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;our brother party&quot; which could &quot;bring about &lt;/ins&gt;the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ruin &lt;/ins&gt;of the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;revolution&quot; and &lt;/ins&gt;the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;slow death-agony &lt;/ins&gt;of the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;proletarian dictatorship&quot;&lt;/ins&gt;. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;He went on calling the Trotskyists &lt;/ins&gt;&quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;a little minority&lt;/ins&gt;&quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ref&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Gramsci&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;On &lt;/ins&gt;the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Situation &lt;/ins&gt;in &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the Bolshevik Party&lt;/ins&gt;. https://&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;muse&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;jhu&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;edu&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;pub&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;248&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;monograph&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/ins&gt;/&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;1323704&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Gramsci&#039;s letter was blocked by Italian Communist chairman [[Palmiro Togliatti]], the cowardly revisionist who had succeeded him.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;-- Antonio Gramsci, 1924 &amp;lt;ref name=&lt;/del&gt;&quot;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;:0&lt;/del&gt;&quot; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;/&amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;/blockquote&lt;/del&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Moreover&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/del&gt;the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;passages &lt;/del&gt;in &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;his ‘Prison Notebooks’ concerning Stalin, Trotsky, or Soviet socialism, all shine a favourable light on Stalin&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[&lt;/del&gt;https://&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;org&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;wiki/Aldo_Bernardini_(giurista) Aldo Bernardini], translated by Jessica Coco. https:&lt;/del&gt;//&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;www.revolutionarydemocracy.org&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rdv19n1&lt;/del&gt;/&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;gramstal.htm&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci&#039;s letter &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;to the Comintern &lt;/del&gt;was blocked by Italian Communist chairman [[Palmiro Togliatti]], the cowardly revisionist who had succeeded him.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;In 1924, he compared his [[Left communism|leftcom]] rival Bordiga to Trotsky, saying that both &quot;played a purely figurative role in the Central Committee&quot; and created a &quot;factional situation&quot; with &quot;disastrous repercussions&quot;. &amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot; /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Trotsky, although taking part ‘in a disciplined manner’ in the work of the party, had through his attitude of passive opposition – similar to Bordiga’s - created a state of unease throughout the Party, which could not fail to get a whiff of this situation. […] This shows that an opposition – even kept within the limits of a formal discipline – on the part of exceptional personalities in the workers’ movement, can not merely hamper the development of the revolutionary situation, but can put in danger the very conquests of the revolution. -- Antonio Gramsci &amp;lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;Moreover, &quot;the passages in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ concerning Stalin, Trotsky, or Soviet socialism, all shine a favourable light on Stalin.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Bernardini_(giurista) Aldo Bernardini], translated by Jessica Coco. https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv19n1/gramstal.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet these traditions existed long before capitalism and worldwide, across different modes of production, as part of a healthy human culture.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet these traditions existed long before capitalism and worldwide, across different modes of production, as part of a healthy human culture.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To use the idea of cultural hegemony &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;against healthy moral traditions &lt;/del&gt;is to ignore Gramsci himself. In his notes, Gramsci criticized the (semi-feudal) Italian countryside for &quot;bestiality and sodomy&quot;, incest, and other &quot;monstrous sexual crimes&quot;, existing despite their ideology of &quot;religious fanaticism and patriarchalism&quot;. He compared their degeneracy to that of the (capitalist) cities, saying, &quot;It is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a &#039;sport.&#039;&quot; He said women must attain &quot;genuine independence&quot; and &quot;a new way of conceiving themselves&quot;. He concluded, &quot;The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalization of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalized.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gramsci, Some Aspects of the Sexual Question. https://web.archive.org/web/20060919172205/http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/reader/q22-3.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To use the idea of cultural hegemony &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;in this way &lt;/ins&gt;is to ignore Gramsci himself. In his notes, Gramsci criticized the (semi-feudal) Italian countryside for &quot;bestiality and sodomy&quot;, incest, and other &quot;monstrous sexual crimes&quot;, existing despite their ideology of &quot;religious fanaticism and patriarchalism&quot;. He compared their degeneracy to that of the (capitalist) cities, saying, &quot;It is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a &#039;sport.&#039;&quot; He said women must attain &quot;genuine independence&quot; and &quot;a new way of conceiving themselves&quot;. He concluded, &quot;The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalization of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalized.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gramsci, Some Aspects of the Sexual Question. https://web.archive.org/web/20060919172205/http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/reader/q22-3.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;-- Antonio Gramsci, 1924 &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;Moreover, &amp;quot;the passages in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ concerning Stalin, Trotsky, or Soviet socialism, all shine a favourable light on Stalin.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Bernardini_(giurista) Aldo Bernardini], translated by Jessica Coco. https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv19n1/gramstal.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;-- Antonio Gramsci, 1924 &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;Moreover, &amp;quot;the passages in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ concerning Stalin, Trotsky, or Soviet socialism, all shine a favourable light on Stalin.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Bernardini_(giurista) Aldo Bernardini], translated by Jessica Coco. https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv19n1/gramstal.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci&#039;s letter to the Comintern was blocked by Italian Communist chairman [[Palmiro Togliatti]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. Trotskyists might try to say Togliatti was a hardcore Stalinist, for working with the USSR. Yet in reality, once Stalin was dead, Togliatti, allying with [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]], moved to liberal revisionism, against Stalin&#039;s legacy. He is considered a pioneer of [[Eurocommunism]] for advocating the &quot;Italian road to socialism&quot;, a Khrushchevite idea that Communism can seize power peacefully (when in reality&lt;/del&gt;, the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;bourgeois will fight it violently). Before his death, he wrote a memorandum that, according to bourgeois historians, &quot;strengthened the trend toward liberalization in communist countries&quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Britannica, &quot;Palmiro Togliatti&quot;. https://web.archive.org/web/20230708001241/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Palmiro-Togliatti&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Togliatti Memorandum condemned the [[Sino-Soviet split|Chinese]], [[Enver Hoxha|Albanians]], and Stalin&#039;s &quot;regime of restrictions&quot;, calling for &quot;open debate&quot; to resolve &quot;the problem of the origin of Stalin&#039;s cult&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Togliatti Memorandum. https://www.marxists.org/archive/togliatti/1964/memorandum.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; - to an early parallel to Gorbachev&#039;s &quot;glasnost&quot; (openness) policy which effectively allowed the Western bourgeois to take over the Soviet media. Togliatti also made &lt;/del&gt;revisionist &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;errors during Stalin&#039;s lifetime - 1) allying with Social Democrat leaders in the &quot;united front from above&quot;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;MLOB, &quot;The Origins of Modern Revisionism.&quot; https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.firstwave/mlob-mr.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Vijay Singh, Togliatti and the Question of Struggle against Fascism. https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv25n1/Togliatti.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and 2) the Salerno Turn, where, at the end of WWII, Togliatti disbanded and disarmed the communist partisans in order to unify with bourgeois politicians, the Italian monarchy, and genocidal fascist general Pietro Badoglio. In exchange, Togliatti gained positions in the second Badoglio government of &quot;national unity&quot;. The Soviets harshly criticized Togliatti for disarming the workers and pursuing bourgeois electoralism.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Bill Bland, The Cominform Fights Revisionism. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/x01/cominform-fights-revisionism&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gramsci&#039;s letter to the Comintern was blocked by Italian Communist chairman [[Palmiro Togliatti]], the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;cowardly &lt;/ins&gt;revisionist &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;who had succeeded him&lt;/ins&gt;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== New Left co-optation of cultural hegemony ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== New Left co-optation of cultural hegemony ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The [[New Left]] (often [[Trotskyism|Trotskyists]] or [[Left communism|left-communists]]) have used the notion of cultural hegemony to argue that widely held moral traditions are simply invented by the bourgeois. For example, New Leftists oppose modesty&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, chastity, &lt;/del&gt;and raising a family in favor of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;prostitution and nymphomania, which they call &lt;/del&gt;&quot;sexual freedom&quot;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The [[New Left]] (often [[Trotskyism|Trotskyists]] or [[Left communism|left-communists]]) have used the notion of cultural hegemony to argue that widely held moral traditions are simply invented by the bourgeois. For example, New Leftists oppose modesty and raising a family in favor of &quot;sexual freedom&quot; &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(prostitution and nymphomania)&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The problem is, &lt;/del&gt;these traditions existed long before capitalism and worldwide, across different modes of production, as part of a healthy human culture&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. They were passed down by peasants to their children without any motive to exploit them&lt;/del&gt;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Yet &lt;/ins&gt;these traditions existed long before capitalism and worldwide, across different modes of production, as part of a healthy human culture.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Some New Leftists claim these &lt;/del&gt;moral traditions &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;were started under feudalism and will be destroyed by communism. For one, &lt;/del&gt;Gramsci &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;wrote about capitalism, not feudalism. For another, many of these traditions exist worldwide, across different modes of production&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;To use the idea of cultural hegemony against healthy &lt;/ins&gt;moral traditions &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;is to ignore &lt;/ins&gt;Gramsci &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;himself&lt;/ins&gt;. In his notes, Gramsci criticized the (semi-feudal) Italian countryside for &quot;bestiality and sodomy&quot;, incest, and other &quot;monstrous sexual crimes&quot;, existing despite their ideology of &quot;religious fanaticism and patriarchalism&quot;. He compared their degeneracy to that of the (capitalist) cities, saying, &quot;It is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a &#039;sport.&#039;&quot; He said women must attain &quot;genuine independence&quot; and &quot;a new way of conceiving themselves&quot;. He concluded, &quot;The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalization of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalized.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gramsci, Some Aspects of the Sexual Question. https://web.archive.org/web/20060919172205/http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/reader/q22-3.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In his notes, Gramsci criticized the (semi-feudal) Italian countryside for &quot;bestiality and sodomy&quot;, incest, and other &quot;monstrous sexual crimes&quot;, existing despite their ideology of &quot;religious fanaticism and patriarchalism&quot;. He compared their degeneracy to that of the (capitalist) cities, saying, &quot;It is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a &#039;sport.&#039;&quot; He said women must attain &quot;genuine independence&quot; and &quot;a new way of conceiving themselves&quot;. He concluded, &quot;The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalization of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalized.&quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gramsci, Some Aspects of the Sexual Question. https://web.archive.org/web/20060919172205/http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/reader/q22-3.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Antonio Gramsci&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was an Italian Communist who developed the theory of [[Cultural Hegemony]], which states that the bourgeois ruling class has a hegemonic influence on culture, through its control over the Mainstream Media and institutions such as NGOs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gramsci helped to found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1924, he became its secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
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From 1926, Gramsci was imprisoned and tortured by [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]]&amp;#039;s Fascists. There, he wrote his Prison Notebooks. He died from sickness due to torture in 1937.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Cultural Hegemony ==&lt;br /&gt;
Cultural hegemony is expressed today through bourgeois culture promoted by Hollywood and the Mainstream Media. It is also enforced through cancel culture.&lt;br /&gt;
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Under [[bourgeois socialism]], the cultural hegemony is centrally managed by the government or [[Blackrock]]. Through state apparatuses like the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[State Department]], former [[Congress for Cultural Freedom|CCF]], [[NED]], [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] before [[DOGE]], and their affiliates like the [[Ford Foundation]] and [[George Soros]]&amp;#039;s Open Society Foundation, the US government spends billions each year promoting [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] narratives like &amp;quot;democracy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The antithesis to this is proletarian culture, the culture that exists among workers. According to Gramsci, Communists must uphold proletarian culture, as it is part of the new communist society that is growing up within capitalism.&lt;br /&gt;
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Infrared draws heavily from Gramsci, including his notion of the &amp;#039;relative autonomy of the superstructure with regard to the base.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Myths ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== New Left co-optation of cultural hegemony ===&lt;br /&gt;
The [[New Left]] (often [[Trotskyism|Trotskyists]] or [[Left communism|left-communists]]) have used the notion of cultural hegemony to argue that widely held moral traditions are simply invented by the bourgeois. For example, New Leftists oppose modesty, chastity, and raising a family in favor of prostitution and nymphomania, which they call &amp;quot;sexual freedom&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The problem is, these traditions existed long before capitalism and worldwide, across different modes of production, as part of a healthy human culture. They were passed down by peasants to their children without any motive to exploit them. &lt;br /&gt;
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Some New Leftists claim these moral traditions were started under feudalism and will be destroyed by communism. For one, Gramsci wrote about capitalism, not feudalism. For another, many of these traditions exist worldwide, across different modes of production.&lt;br /&gt;
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In his notes, Gramsci criticized the (semi-feudal) Italian countryside for &amp;quot;bestiality and sodomy&amp;quot;, incest, and other &amp;quot;monstrous sexual crimes&amp;quot;, existing despite their ideology of &amp;quot;religious fanaticism and patriarchalism&amp;quot;. He compared their degeneracy to that of the (capitalist) cities, saying, &amp;quot;It is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a &amp;#039;sport.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; He said women must attain &amp;quot;genuine independence&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;a new way of conceiving themselves&amp;quot;. He concluded, &amp;quot;The truth is that the new type of man demanded by the rationalization of production and work cannot be developed until the sexual instinct has been suitably regulated and until it too has been rationalized.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gramsci, Some Aspects of the Sexual Question. https://web.archive.org/web/20060919172205/http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/reader/q22-3.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Trotsky vs. Stalin ===&lt;br /&gt;
Trotskyists have falsely claimed that Gramsci was sympathetic to Trotskyism, pointing to his letter to the Comintern which (they claim) was &amp;quot;protesting Stalin&amp;#039;s campaign against the Left Opposition.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Leon Trotsky via Pioneer Publishers, &amp;quot;What Is Fascism and How to Fight It&amp;quot; (1944) https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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In reality, Gramsci was completely pro-Stalin. He wrote in 1926, &amp;quot;Our letter was a whole indictment of the opposition.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Communist Platform - Gramsci, a Bolshevik. https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/10/communist-platform-gramsci-a-bolshevik/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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He compared his [[Left communism|leftcom]] rival Bordiga to Trotsky, saying that both &amp;quot;played a purely figurative role in the Central Committee&amp;quot; and created a &amp;quot;factional situation&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;disastrous repercussions&amp;quot;. &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;Trotsky, although taking part ‘in a disciplined manner’ in the work of the party, had through his attitude of passive opposition – similar to Bordiga’s - created a state of unease throughout the Party, which could not fail to get a whiff of this situation. […] This shows that an opposition – even kept within the limits of a formal discipline – on the part of exceptional personalities in the workers’ movement, can not merely hamper the development of the revolutionary situation, but can put in danger the very conquests of the revolution.&lt;br /&gt;
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-- Antonio Gramsci, 1924 &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;Moreover, &amp;quot;the passages in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ concerning Stalin, Trotsky, or Soviet socialism, all shine a favourable light on Stalin.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Bernardini_(giurista) Aldo Bernardini], translated by Jessica Coco. https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv19n1/gramstal.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Gramsci&amp;#039;s letter to the Comintern was blocked by Italian Communist chairman [[Palmiro Togliatti]]. Trotskyists might try to say Togliatti was a hardcore Stalinist, for working with the USSR. Yet in reality, once Stalin was dead, Togliatti, allying with [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]], moved to liberal revisionism, against Stalin&amp;#039;s legacy. He is considered a pioneer of [[Eurocommunism]] for advocating the &amp;quot;Italian road to socialism&amp;quot;, a Khrushchevite idea that Communism can seize power peacefully (when in reality, the bourgeois will fight it violently). Before his death, he wrote a memorandum that, according to bourgeois historians, &amp;quot;strengthened the trend toward liberalization in communist countries&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Britannica, &amp;quot;Palmiro Togliatti&amp;quot;. https://web.archive.org/web/20230708001241/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Palmiro-Togliatti&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Togliatti Memorandum condemned the [[Sino-Soviet split|Chinese]], [[Enver Hoxha|Albanians]], and Stalin&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;regime of restrictions&amp;quot;, calling for &amp;quot;open debate&amp;quot; to resolve &amp;quot;the problem of the origin of Stalin&amp;#039;s cult&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Togliatti Memorandum. https://www.marxists.org/archive/togliatti/1964/memorandum.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; - to an early parallel to Gorbachev&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;glasnost&amp;quot; (openness) policy which effectively allowed the Western bourgeois to take over the Soviet media. Togliatti also made revisionist errors during Stalin&amp;#039;s lifetime - 1) allying with Social Democrat leaders in the &amp;quot;united front from above&amp;quot;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;MLOB, &amp;quot;The Origins of Modern Revisionism.&amp;quot; https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.firstwave/mlob-mr.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Vijay Singh, Togliatti and the Question of Struggle against Fascism. https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv25n1/Togliatti.htm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and 2) the Salerno Turn, where, at the end of WWII, Togliatti disbanded and disarmed the communist partisans in order to unify with bourgeois politicians, the Italian monarchy, and genocidal fascist general Pietro Badoglio. In exchange, Togliatti gained positions in the second Badoglio government of &amp;quot;national unity&amp;quot;. The Soviets harshly criticized Togliatti for disarming the workers and pursuing bourgeois electoralism.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Bill Bland, The Cominform Fights Revisionism. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/x01/cominform-fights-revisionism.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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