Although Carney himself answers questions in this interview in typical Emperor’s New Clothes fashion, in other words, incomprehensibly but in a way that makes you feel that you are the stupid one if you don’t pretend to understand admire its wisdom, the initial question and the nature of the person who asks the question makes it all very clear. Why did Carney agree to be interviewed by Irish Communist, Alex White SC. A former Labour Party politician.
Fist, for those that don’t know who Antonio Gramsci is, look at this very brief summary in Key Wiki:
Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian political theorist and founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci’s theories have quietly been incorporated into American culture for at least 50 years. Gramsci believed that the way to incorporate Marxism in capitalist societies was best achieved from the bottom up by stealthily changing the beliefs of the culture itself, called “cultural hegemony.” Cultural hegemony involves softening, or radicalizing, the culture’s beliefs about various social issues such as homosexuality, marriage, education, women’s issues, religion, divorce, pornography, media, abortion and established political parties. The idea is to move everything to the left so that eventually new norms are rooted into society – a Gramsci form of the Overton Window if you will…[1]
Gramsci Symposium
The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University hosted “Gramsci Now: Cultural and Political Theory,” an international symposium to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci, November 9-11, 2007 in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Presenters were: Stanley Aronowitz, Joseph Buttigieg, Kate Crehan, Roberto Dainotto, Michael Denning, Benedetto Fontana, Stephen Gill, Marcia Landy, Guido Liguori, Frank Rosengarten, David Ruccio, Epifanio San Juan[2].
References
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Communist Antonio Gramsci Resides In The White House NewsReal Blog, Nov. 24, 2010
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http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/communications/news.html
As an interesting aside, Pete Buttigieg, who was US secretary of Transportation under Biden (Obama’s 3rd term) was the son of Joseph Biden, who was the founding president of the International Gramsci Society, and spent much of his academic career translating and editing the definitive English edition of Gramsci’s prison diaries. He was a Marxist prof. of literature at Notre Dame.
So for Carney to be discussing accomplishing Gramsci’s vision with an Irish communist, well as the expression goes, “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” -John Heywood, 1546.
I haven’t made it all the way through this yet. But here is the entire video from which that except was taken in case anyone wants to know if there is a contextual conflict between my claims and the entire speech.

