Antonio Gramsci is not a Marxist? Response to Joel McDurmon

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 By Slimjim - Posted at The Domain for Truth:

There’s been a lot of debate among Christians these days about Critical Race Theory. Voddie Baucham has written a book titled Fault Lines.[1] Author and law student Joel McDurmon have done a series of videos critical of Voddie’s book. Over at Youtube McDurmon’s first video can be found titled “Review of Voddie Baucham, Fault Lines – Definitions and Meanings – Part One” and I want to address something he said in minute 19:30-21:29. Specifically my post will examine Joel’s claim that Italian pre-World War Two Marxist Antonio Gramsci is not a Marxist.

The reason why McDurmon is talking about Gramsci is because McDurmon points out Bauchman has written about how some of the ideological influences of Critical Race Theory are Marxists. While I have not read Bauchman’s book I have seen online how Voddie have referenced Gramsci before during his talk about cultural Marxism.[2] I do think from the literature of Critical Race Theorists themselves acknowledge that among their many influences that does include Antonio Gramsci. In the third edition of the book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction under a paragraph titled “Relationship to Previous Movements” the authors wrote “critical race theory builds on the insights of two previous movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism, to both of which it owes a large debt. It also draws from certain European philosophers and theorists, such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida…”[3] How much and what kind of influence Gramsci has on Critical Race Theory is an issue of debate but in this post I will focus more narrowly on McDurmon’s challenge against Voddie that Gramsci wasn’t a Marxist.

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