The Plot to Change America
1st September 2020
Increasingly, calls for wealth and power redistribution are dressed as compensatory justice for members of different identity groups. We see this playing out on our campuses, in our corporations, and, recently, in our streets. But when did the world shift away from a Marxism based on economic classes (the worker v. the bourgeois) into one based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, and even disability status?
Since now, I guess.
A story has to start somewhere, and I suggest the best place for this one is a fascist prison in Italy in the late 1920s and 1930s. There languished the Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci. Now he had the time to write down thoughts he’d been entertaining for over a decade.
Gramsci’s influence is quite unappreciated.