Thinking about arguing that the early Hofstadter was the American Gramsci. Don't know if that's going too far.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @mkazin
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 They are both attempts to think about hegemony by someone who didn't have that toolkit (Gramsci being unpublished even in Italy at that point).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I agree -- and it's hard to imagine John Lewis taking a copy of LTA with him on the Selma march, while he carried a copy of APT in his backpack: https://news.columbia.edu/news/congressman-john-lewis-life-civil-rights-leadership-chronicled-graphic-novels …
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This is a great detail! I'll work it into my essay!
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