As I have briefly touched upon previously there has been some disagreement on the ideological relationship between Lenin and Gramsci. I believe this mainly has two reasons. 1. For posterity the ideology of “Leninism” or rather “Marxism-Leninism” was established by Stalin after Lenin’s death. Lenin then became a vehicle to promote Stalins own ideas and … More Gramsci and Lenin
In connection with a course I was taking I recently read Peter Kosso’s “Reading the Book of Nature: An introduction to the philosophy of science”. In it he is talking a bit about the relation between science and “common sense”. There he describes common sense as “what we take to be responsible, justified knowledge … More Gramsci vs. Kosso on Common Sense
After i wrote the first draft of my paper published in Gramsciana #2 (see previous post) about a Norwegian debate on Gramsci vs. Lenin in 1980, I also wrote this small piece on a debate I myself started in 2014. I however was lost into other projects and never got around to publishing it, even … More Everything changes, and yet everything remains the same
In the second volume of the journal Gramsciana, I have published the paper with the title of the heading of this short post. It is an evaluation of a debate between Norwegian sociologist and at the time co-chair of the Socialist Left party Rune Slagstad and amongst others people like Hans I. Kleven and Jon … More Gramsci vs. Lenin – The First Norwegian Debate on Gramsci
Gramsci is known for the quote “everybody is an intellectual”. By this he naturally does not imply that everybody has the role in society as an intellectual, but simply that there are some subjects about which everybody has an opinion. In a often used quote (at least by me), Gramsci states how a person … More Bildung, intellectuals and experts
I recently picked Victor Klemperer’s diary from his experiences living as a jew in nazi Germany out of the bookshelf and skimmed through some selected parts. One of the most interesting parts from the early days is his brief but passioned description of how the german institutions fell quite resistanceless against the nazi party takeover, … More Gramsci vs. Klemperer
I have written a paper that will be featured in the coming issue of the journal Gramsciana. Rivista internazionale di studi su Antonio Gramsci. (Visit their facebookpage for updates.) The subject of the paper is a public debate about Gramsci that ran in Norway in academic and left-political circles around 1980, mostly regarding Gramscis relationship to … More Gramsciana
WARNING: I recently did the following study over a short period of time, not knowing exactly what to do with it. I now realize it will be a long time until I’ll have the time to go through it, clean up links, language and structure for any serious publication, but as it is a hotly … More Is the SJW-threath to academic freedom real, or just a right wing fantasy? A preliminary examination
As the few determined readers of this off-and-on blog probably have gathered by now, I believe that one of the most important contributions Antonio Gramsci has made to modern political thought, is his break with the economic determinism of many early Marxists. It has been an ongoing debate, to which extent Marx himself can be … More Disproving Economic Determinism – The Chinese Connection
Like Antonio Gramsci found himself confined to Mussolini’s dungeons, having to jot down short lines of thought in small notebooks, I at times find myself confined to the kitchen table, by a laptop, forced by an uncontrollable impulse to comment on something I have seen or read, to write a few short lines about … More Gramsci, Journalism and Rational Thinking
On the Northern Questions 