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When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani equated the lobbying group AIPAC to “monsters” in a blistering get-out-the vote speech last week in Brooklyn, people paid notice.

His remarks justifiably drew quick condemnation as a blatant example of antisemitism. The trope of Jewish people as being less (or more) than human is a central and recurring theme among Jew-haters. “Swap ‘AIPAC’ for ‘Jews’ and it’s the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theory in the books,” tweeted Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat. “That’s not criticizing a lobby. This bullshit is dangerous.”

The controversy over antisemitism rightly made the headlines, but what got lost in the reporting – and is just as revealing of the mayor’s mindset – was the prelude to Mamdani’s attack on AIPAC. He led into his remarks this way: “As Gramsci says, ‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.’”

This is a loose but serviceable translation lifted from “Prison Notebooks,” one of the tracts in the pantheon of influential but unreadable books on Marxist political theory. Its author is Antonio Gramsci, a cofounder and one-time leader of the........

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