2.1 A Working Class Intelligentsia Manifesto

I started this podcast in order to extract strategy and insight from Gramsci’s writings. This Gramsci-inspired manifesto calls for a recalibration of the term “working class” per Marx’s Das Kapital, Volume 1 in order to build the foundation for a renewed international working class struggle for socialism grounded on a socialist mode of production and empowerment of the working class, de-emphasizing reliance on a vanguard of revolutionaries. How should socialists relate to the PMC? “Waypoint: Timenergy, critical media theory, and culture war” by Theory Pleeb https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M8QG8B9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_ZYBSX12JJPFGJP9VETMK Wikipedia article on “Mode of Production” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_production Economics of Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism Germanic People (Barbarians) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Migration_Period_(ca._375–568) Merchants in the Middle Ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant#Merchants_in_the_medieval_period PDFs of Erik Olin Wright’s books https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ DSA National Political Education event with Meagan Day that discusses some overlapping content about Non-Reformist Reforms https://youtu.be/GcHMGRKNobY André Gorz’s “Reform and Revolution” https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5272/2173