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  • adjective of or pertaining to Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci and his works

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Gramsci +‎ -an.

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Examples

  • In Denning's formulation, the Popular Front is more productively viewed in Gramscian terms, as a "historical bloc uniting industrial unionists, Communists, independent socialists, community activists, and émigré anti-fascists around laborist social democracy, anti-fascism and anti-lynching."

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • 'Gramscian', 'Ayer', 'conspiracy' etc.etc. are likely to appear.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • This inspired addition, introduced by the Vicar of Christ, prevented the whole theme of the Conference, and even the Conference itself from being infected by that kind of Gramscian reductionism, that limits the life of man to a purely material existence.

    Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • This inspired addition, introduced by the Vicar of Christ, prevented the whole theme of the Conference, and even the Conference itself from being infected by that kind of Gramscian reductionism, that limits the life of man to a purely material existence.

    Archive 2008-11-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • I wonder my fellow philes and phobes if we can get through this one avoiding the following: lengthy and self-indulgent sermons; playground spats; use of the word 'Gramscian'?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • This is Obama's Gramscian strategy designed to redirect the opposition down a blind alley.

    Still-Birthers 2009

  • But that doesn't explain why people like Peter Clarke - no Gramscian sap he - are so concerned about the Islamist threat.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • I realize that it was always too late once Obama threw his hat into the ring unless you go back decades, before the Gramscian march of leftism through the schools and the press.

    The election of 2008: not listening to Cassandra 2010

  • But when I look back, I realize that it was always too late once Obama threw his hat into the ring unless you go back decades, before the Gramscian march of leftism through the schools and the press.

    The election of 2008: not listening to Cassandra 2010

  • The Sheehy, Scarman and McPherson inquiries were all Gramscian stitch-ups.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

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