Gramsci is someone I can't help but get excited about anytime I read/reread him. There is so much there & like Stuart Hall says, "One of the most important things that Gramsci has done for us is to give us a profoundly expanded conception of what politics itself is like."

"We cannot, after Gramsci, go back to the notion of mistaking electoral politics, or party politics in a narrow sense, or even the occupancy of state power, as constituting the ground of modern politics itself." / Hall

I was teaching Stuart Hall's incredible pieces on Gramsci last week, & was struck by how prescient he was about the fialures of the British left and its inability to understand that it needed to create as alternative project, not just contest elections.

Gramsci and Us / Stuart Hall

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2448-stuart-hall-gramsci-and-us

"Gramsci understood that the general framework of Marx’s theory had to be constantly developed theoretically; applied to new historical conditions; related to developments in society; expanded and refined by the addition of new concepts." /Hall

cc: Marxist bros

Love Gramsci, love Hall, and love how they come together! <3