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Mussolini, Mayor Pete and the Long March [KT]![]() This week, someone made a comment on Facebook about how it was a shame that Americans were more afraid of European-style Democratic Socialism (in reference to Bernie Sanders and Denmark, in particular) than of European-style Fascism (in reference to President Trump, of course). Has the President made the trains run on time? Are people still upset that he put travelers from China into quarantine last month? It got me thinking about Mayor Pete, whose father probably would not have founded a society dedicated to Antonio Gramsci if Mussolini had not put Gramsci in prison. If his father had not had this sort of dedication to Gramsci, would Pete have become a politician? (Would people still call him Mayor Pete if he were elected president?) Mayor Pete's campaign seems to be fading a little from when he was attracting big donations last year with his abstract promises to bring America together. Buttigieg tells voters that the next President will "stand on the rubble of what has been busted in our society." But I don't think his career is over. I think he is in it for the long march. He might even be in the running for VP this year. The situation seems to me to be quite fluid. Whatever happens, his story provides some insight into the long march of Marxism through our institutions and culture. Not many people in the general population noticed that on February 12, The Nation published a piece on what Mayor Pete had learned from Marxist Intellectuals. About Pete's father: When he started working on Gramsci, the Italian thinker was a common touchstone for political discussions--but almost none of Gramsci's English-speaking devotees had read the Prison Notebooks in full, let alone were familiar with the full breadth of his work. The critic must have seen an important opening here: What were Gramsci's most passionate adherents failing to see? Mayor Pete is dull because he is ethical? A couple of weeks ago, there was a very well-written piece in The American Spectator entitled, Mayor Pete: Red Diaper Baby. Pete Buttigieg's father, Joseph Buttigieg, . . was the world's foremost expert (certainly the English-speaking world) on the famous Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Joseph, who died in January 2019, was no less than the founder of the International Gramsci Society. . . . Gramsci looked to culture, particularly through his theory of "cultural hegemony." If the fundamental transformers of the radical Left truly wanted to win, then they needed to first seize the so-called "cultural means of production"; that is, culture-forming institutions such as the media and universities. Gramsci himself foresaw societal transformation coming about by what others have characterized as a Gramscian "long march through the institutions." . . . Read the whole thing for details on how Mayor Pete's upbringing may have affected his current views. There are a lot of fascinating details in this piece about the father, the son and academia. When he was younger, Pete won the annual Profiles in Courage award bestowed by the JFK Library by picking Bernie Sanders as a "profile in courage". Music Hope you have a great weekend. This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread: | Recent Comments
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