Gramsci? No, thanks

Marcello Veneziani

Marcello Veneziani writes on cultural warfare and Gramscian ideology.

To begin with, let's dispel the recent legend of a "liberal" Gramsci. It's a false and also offensive story: he would be the first to be offended. Gramsci has always been consistently communist and socialist, anti-liberal and anti-capitalist. 
But not only that: when the authoritarian fascist regime imprisoned him for his ideas, in prison Gramsci theorized a much more radical totalitarian regime than the one that had thrown him in prison. Gramsci did not oppose violence and dictatorship, but distinguished between a regressive violence and dictatorship that he identified in fascism and a progressive violence and dictatorship that he identified in communism and Lenin's Russian revolution. The first was to be fought, the second to be supported. 
Gramsci was and remained a profound Leninist, and his idea of ​​bringing the communist revolution into the West, into our national and popular fabric, was exactly what Lenin had theorized. Gramsci remained deeply linked to totalitarianism, even if the way to impose it in Italy, in the West, was primarily pedagogical, through cultural conquest to then reach civil and political conquest. It is the sense of Gramscian cultural hegemony, which envisages compromise and alliance with "progressive" forces as intermediate stages. But the purpose remains the same. Furthermore, his ideology and practice draw inspiration not only from the Soviet Leninist experience but also from the fascist experience; Gramsci was an interventionist following Mussolini and still a revolutionary socialist; The influence that Gentile's thought exerted on Gramsci and on the world of Ordine Nuovo is well known, as well as that of Sorel, who linked him to Mussolini. 

Saint Anthony Gramsci, as Rosario Romeo ironically defined him , demolished the Italian national, religious and civil, literary and cultural tradition, on the basis of his ideological canon, exalting the Russian one in comparison. He dismissed Dante as a reactionary, "one defeated by the war of the classes...he wants to overcome the present but with his eyes turned to the past". Dante is loved by "mindless professors who make religions of some poet and writer" (yes, Dante was just "some poet and writer"...). He dismissed Petrarca as "an intellectual of the anti-bourgeois reaction" and his Canzoniere as "a manifestation of elitist, courtly, insincere culture... a purely paper phenomenon". https://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/gramsci-no-grazie/

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