This review excavates “The Modern Prince” as Gramsci’s prison-forged answer to the West’s revolutionary stall: why fortified capitalism survives crisis through consent, institutions, and “common sense.” It reconstructs his core strategic arsenal—collective will, hegemony, war of position, and the party as the organized brain of the oppressed—against the fantasies of spontaneity and the dead-end of... Continue Reading →
Capital’s Emergency Exit: Michael Parenti, Fascism, and the War on Class Memory
Fascism is not an aberration but a rational instrument deployed when capital loses democratic control. Socialist revolutions expanded freedom for the many and were met with siege, sabotage, and counterrevolution. The restoration of capitalism in the East revealed the market as a system of plunder, repression, and social decay. Anti-communism and class denial function as... Continue Reading →