ILN EP 103: Antonio Gramsci

Pat was feeling like half a momo, so Ben introduces him to the very Eye-talian flavor of Marxism developed by Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci started as a pizza chef, then became a master plumber with his brother, Luigi. In order to learn this trade, he became a trade unionist before converting fully to Marxism. He redefined Western Marxism by introducing novel concepts like Cultural Hegemony and the Base v. Superstructure dichotomy. He wrote extensively about Marxist theory while imprisoned by Mussolini for the last 11 years of his life. Mamma Mia!