Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism

9. Gramsci and the Contradictions of the Coming Revolution

In the final episode of the podcast I sketch an answer to the question: what form of political rule can facilitate a democratic transition out of capitalism?

8: Gramsci and the Venezuelan Revolution

What might revolutionary hegemony look like in a modern setting? In this episode we travel to the Venezuelan revolution under the leadership of Hugo Chavez and explore its affinities with Gramsci's philosophy of revolution.

7. Gramsci and the British Cultures of Neo-Liberalism

In this, episode 7, I explore the British cultures of neo- liberalism between 1997 until the present day, using a Gramscian optic to understand the British crisis, political and economic.

6. Gramsci, Stuart Hall and Thatcherism

In this, episode 6, I discuss Stuart Hall's Gramscian analysis of Thatcherism in the 1980s as a way of developing Grasmci's analysis of the political management of antagonisms in class democracies.

5. Gramsci and the Philosophers of the Western Public Sphere

In this, episode 5. I discuss Gramsci's thinking in relation to three of his contemporaries from the United States - all New Yorkers. They are the philosopher John Dewey, the public relations genius Edward Bernays and the newspaper man and philosopher Walter Lippmann. None of these figures are interested in developing the kind of working class public sphere that we saw Trotsky wanted to develop. But coming from the most advanced and dense mass communications space on the planet, they have plenty to tell us about how elite hegemony works in class democracies.