GRAMSCIAN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION MEGATHREAD

Ever heard of hegemony? Are you familiar with (pic related)? If not, it's time.

Say what you will about (((conspiracies))); underneath everything about the current social milieu originates in the thought of this man. It should be noted he was entirely correct about everything he believed about large-scale social change. This is demonstrable in so far as we are on the cusp of his hoped-for future.

He designed "cultural Marxism" to undermine the Western culture in anticipation of the new community age. His disciples populated academia and entertainment; and, whereas many other individuals have understood influence, none understood the currency of culture quite like (pic related). It was his vision to cultivate a worker's subculture which would separate the interests and values of the proletariat from the those of bourgeoisie. This culture would center around a libertine attitude and constant agitation, all toward the end of unsettling the very moorings of "Capitalist" (read, 'traditional') society. The great ship Humanity, thus set on its own way, would soon beg for a Captain wise enough to bring them back into a pacific port. This would be the moment the secret junta appears to welcome us into our amazing new world of centralized control and various scintillating sensations, which are the only thing the de-familied, de-cultured, de-skilled population can think about: how to get new kinds of highs and how to avoid any responsibility.

His dream has come to pass. Remember. He was correct. He might be the second most important person who lived during the 20th century. Tragically, his vision turns out to be a nightmare and his proselytes tyrants and we are all caught up in it by no choice of our own.

What should we do, humans? We have been rats in a maze our whole lives, living a failing experiment in transcending humanity whose designers are far too invested to ever give up. I think the key is understanding this man and trying to be even more clever than he was.

>I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.

>The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. It is the raw material that ruins intelligence. That what happens, the evil that weighs upon all, happens because the human mass abdicates to their will; allows laws to be promulgated that only the revolt could nullify, and leaves men that only a mutiny will be able to overthrow to achieve the power. The mass ignores because it is careless and then it seems like it is the product of fate that runs over everything and everyone: the one who consents as well as the one who dissents; the one who knew as well as the one who didn’t know; the active as well as the indifferent. Some whimper piously, others curse obscenely, but nobody, or very few ask themselves: If I had tried to impose my will, would this have happened?

>I also hate the indifferent because of that: because their whimpering of eternally innocent ones annoys me. I make each one liable: how they have tackled with the task that life has given and gives them every day, what have they done, and especially, what they have not done. And I feel I have the right to be inexorable and not squander my compassion, of not sharing my tears with them.

>I am a partisan, I am alive, I feel the pulse of the activity of the future city that those on my side are building is alive in their conscience. And in it, the social chain does not rest on a few; nothing of what happens in it is a matter of luck, nor the product of fate, but the intelligent work of the citizens. Nobody in it is looking from the window of the sacrifice and the drain of a few. Alive, I am a partisan. That is why I hate the ones that don’t take sides, I hate the indifferent.

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Thanks user. I will.

So, the name of the game is subversion. The hegemony is different, but the toolkit remains the same. Saul Alinsky of "Rules for Radicals" fame, was a big Gramsci fan too. We should mine his tactics as well.

We need to remember that the social influence this place generates is an open-source hegemonic social engineering experiment running all the time. Back in Ron Paul times, this capacity was revealed in startling ways, causing many different actors to covet what imageboard culture had to offer. The war has since grown painfully meta as I am sure you have noticed; I believe the directive was to drive Sup Forums toward shitposting and self-parody, thus limiting its wildcat potential.

Taking back the board would mean making a pact to only reply to quality OC with quality responses until that takes hold as a new mark of legitimacy. Remember, this board's culture is held together by "insider" memes that help make sense of who is behind the screen. One's knowledge of and adherence to these insider memes is the only recognizable form of status here.

So, if this is a powerful tool in the Gramscian culture war, first thing is to take it back.

>Strong leaders have a mental illness, trust me goyim

I fucking hate Antonio

Keep going NIGGER

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Bump. Solid thread user.

Where has Gramsci taken over?

>Academia

Gramsci's followers were academics primarily, and the biggest measure of his influence can be found here. Remember, Gramsci never thought he would live to see his cultural revolution come to full fruition. He knew that it would take several generations of exposure to subversive cultural programming to finally break the bourgeoisie hegemony. A great way to seed the culture with this subversive cultural programming is by making the programming a part of a gatekeeping proceedure whereby you keep access to certain sorts of jobs and careers behind a payway and then force ideological assent (or more accurately, just generate it out of whole cloth by the telling since the same Gramscians were who turned the public school system completely retarded so everyone coming out would be susceptible to ideological programming in college)

>Pop Culture

Music, television, movies... Remember, there are things called film schools and music schools where people must pass through the same paywalls to get anywhere in the industry. Couple this with the fact that all the aforementioned are basically forms of prostitution that never really carried any kind of cache until the birth of the moving picture, and you can see how the massive culture-churning apparatus that is the entertainment industry was easy pickings for the Gramscians.

Interesting tasks for the interested:

So, I mentioned upthread Saul Alinsky. He is a known Gramscian. In fact, chances are most everybody in your typical college social science department is. But there are casual Gramsci people and there are Gramsci specialists. If there were talented parties interested in treasure hunts, I would put money on the idea that there is a traceable lineage from Gramsci directly to many people in power on the left. You can find this out by tracing citations in doctoral theses and such. What needs to be done is an information campaign, in long form, that does not conform to the quick glance/dopamine hit/move on thing that has been all the rage lately. We must catch the backlash before they do. If this board returns to quality, we can use it like it used to be used: it was a weathervane for social trends, and by a proper reading of that weathervane, you could anticipate quite a bit. We can get the information earlier, we can act on it earlier. But more importantly, we can drive culture back away from the cliff just by refusing to be glib, refusing to shitpost and derail even when the lulz, and committing to the discourse.

If you haven't noticed, the world and Sup Forums have lately merged. Shitposting is real life, because we are real life, and they are we.

>If I had tried to impose my will, would this have happened?
Hitler did everything he could to try and save us but we refused to listen. Not only did we refuse to listen, but we actively tried to intervene. Now we're heading on a sure and steady descent into communism; like China and the Soviet Union.

And the worst part about it: there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. The pedophocracy controls the media, government, Hollywood, the legal system, and most importantly, the financial system.

History repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a satire. Guess which one Donald Trump and the alt right is part of?

But who the fuck is this guy, then?

That's Robert W. Cox. He is the dude who took Gramsci's ideas about communism and then instead turned them to globalism. You want to talk about a bait and switch? This guy did the big one, using Gramsci's ideas coupled with "social science" to SCIENCE about why globalism was the only true way toward unity and the eshcaton and everything. He even edited a collection called "Approaches to World Order."

Find out who this guy's intellectual children are. HINT: they work for the CIA and the State Department.

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Cox worked for the International Labor Organization, which formulated labor standards for workers in signatory organizations. This is an excellent example of Gramscian strategy at work. Social engineering through regulation (think multigender bathrooms) works well, because Gramsci insists that enacted ideology is ideology no matter whether you understand what you are doing or not. For Gramsci, belief is not import. All that is important is praxis, the movement of bodies through history in space and time. You can regulate people into habits, into conditions of mind, even into opinions. Think about the way that people on social services are naturally incentivized to support the government, even if they have no idea what it is or what it does. This is no accident. The policymakers who create the policies which basically create society know exactly what they are doing, because many of them were educated by people who thought Robert Cox was hot shit in IR circles in the 80s. I bet you could even trace several late 80s interventionist conflicts to people in his circles.

Bump. I'm a English/Phil double major in undergrad (inb4 no job) and the influence of Gramsci subversion is very obvious for the former major.

Most of my studies with Marxism (aside from Marx himself) dealt with Frankfurt School. Mainly Benjamin, but also some Adorno and Horkheimer. What can you tell us about the relation between Gramsci and the Frankfurt School?

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Okay, so I am no expert, but from what I can gather the Frankfurt school was a group of philosophers and -ologists who rallied around Hegel and Marx white simultaneously expressing understandable frustration with the way things were going in the USSR. They were better communists than Lenin and the boys, knowing the philosophical underpinnings of Marxism demanded a progression that should have already happened. This, plus the very real lessons in hard IR the Weimar situation presented led these men to think very seriously about on-the-ground political movements. It is notable that the Weimar was an example of disruption taking a horrifying turn; oddly, I think it was also inspirational, since the Weimar situation allowed Hitler to sweep in as conquering hero in the wake of the Allies' rape of Germany.

Most all of the Frankfurt school members were expelled from the country by the Nazis, since they were obvious subversives. It would be pretty simple to figure out how this diaspora seeded Frankfurt school thought throughout the West. Oh, the infographics I would build if only I had the time.

the frankfurt school was a sythesis of freudian psychology and marxist ideology from what i understand founded by the Fabians who where the definition of champagne socialists

also didnt they come to chicago after Hitler kicked them out? 99% of the reason that city is so pozd

>Oh, the infographics I would build if only I had the time.
you really need to nu pol really doesnt get redpills like this any more

Didnt Gramsci at least take inspiration from the frankfurt school ? its black pilling how much of this i forgot

Thanks OP, I'll read up on this, just ordered these.

Anons, remember that all these guys were essentially coffee-shop burnouts who happened upon memes before memes were cool. That isn't even an exaggeration. They are the same as us. They had no special powers. They just believed in things and took the long view.

Did you know these men designed our lives? Every wasted day of school, every horrifyingly banal hour at work, every job you never got because you weren't "qualified" (read: credentialed)... They wanted to make this happen. The idea is to make the masses know nothing, and make sure the only people who get real power have been "enlightened" by running them through your "education system" before your ever let them loose to make policy. And the great part is, since only people with Degrees get to have that power, and the only people who you give degrees to have to go through your indoctrination whether they know it or not, that means you have a small army of ambitious bureaucrats pushing your agenda because they think "that's just the way things are done."

Way to go man. Feed your head.

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You understand hegemony incorrectly.
Hegemony is the way how ruling class (capitalists) resolves class conflicts by spreading his idelology which unites the society in some way. Like nationalism.

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Anyway, I haven't really gotten around to it yet, but yes, that's a good explanation. Remember, it is not as if the ruling class consciously engages in hegemony as a practice. Hegemony is itself the substance of the fabric of society, the a priori understandings that keep everyone "in their place" or so the story goes.

Interesting that you mention nationalism. Do you think that the current crop of New Nationalists are taking advantage of an overly-ambitious Gramscian campaign gone off-the-rails? That's the impression I get.

(And if they are taking advantage, do they even understand at all how? I doubt it.)

Well, anons. I hope this spreads. If you have the heart to make your own Gramsci threads, get on it. I think we can take control of the board and the message if we are purposeful and focused. Remember, they who control the message control the future.

The key will be a new ideology. We can't keep rehashing these sequels. It's time for OC.

>bourgeoisie

I've never understood why Christians/Traditionalists have adopted the language of the kikes..

Stop doing that. .