Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Organic Intellectuals, & Italian Fascism
Release Date: 02/12/2020
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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Listen to the first installment of this four-episode series Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia (1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the...
info_outlineJon (from Horror Vanguard) and Brenden (from Marxism and Moshpits) return to the show; this time to discuss the life and political theory of the famous Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.
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Outro music 'To the Fellow Travellers' by Brzowski
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