no Jack Kirby was clearly the American Gramsci, while Hofstadter was the American Dave Sim. do you ever listen to yourself?
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Well, that's also true.
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Gotta be Big Gene, no?
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Genovese used Gramsci but my argument is that Hofstadter developed parallel ideas before Gramsci's corpus was available even in Italy, let alone in translation.
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...I think it goes too far but it is intriguing and makes me want to hear more?
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Wait for the essay.
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By early, I assume you mean when he wrote APT? By the mid-50s, he was more like a liberal who borrowed ideas from the Frankfurt School
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Yes, the American Political Tradition and the Social Darwinism book. They are both attempts to think about hegemony by someone who didn't have that toolkit (Gramsci being unpublished even in Italy at that point).
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For what it’s worth, Hofstadter’s work on American paranoia should be required reading. He offers a fascinating entry point to North American conservatism.
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Pete Buttigieg's dad would have known the answer to that
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