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You either die a hero, or live long enough to be demonized by western capital, lol.
Antonio Gramsci met a pretty tragic end. Jailed by the Mussolini regime in Italy for 11 years and eventually just withered away from illness. Died too young just like so many victims of fascism.
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Managed to go on an absolute tear with the prison notebooks though, even under surveillance, and deliver excellent analysis of culture and hegemony.
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Western media still hate him because his theory (if they remember him that is), one Italian fucker even wrote a book that Gramsci turned marxism into fascism and thus every modern marxist is a fascist. Funnily enough they seem to recognise importance of Gramsci theory more than ultras and dogmatists.
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Gramsci is one of the most bafflingly misunderstood or misconstrued figures in the Marxist canon precisely due to the nature of the theory he wrote.
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I’d switch Marx and Engels with Rosa and Sankara based purely on the historical ignorance of people knowing who they are.
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2 monthsTroysky is a bit of an outlier on this scale, dur to the things he and the Trotskyist political parties did after he actively engaged in an armed struggle.
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Realistically between Kim Il Sung and Che/Lenin, right where Ho Chi Minh would be.








