So, I wondered where this quotation – which does not sound like Gramsci, and is not what he argued for –came from. The thread, and the article, do not evince any familiarity with (or, frankly, cursory reading of) Gramsci's work.

Probably its immediate source is culture war grifter and all-round crank Chris Rufo, who uses it here: www.city-journal.org/laying-siege-to-elite-institutions

Rufo got it from elsewhere – these people don't read books – possibly from notorious clearing-house for right-wing conspiracy claptrap, The Spectator, which cites a slightly fuller version in this 2017 piece. www.spectator.com.au/2017/10/whats-left-of-western-culture-just-about-everything/

The hokey intellectual genealogy in that piece has been widely pilfered elsewhere on the grifter as well – all the greatest hits, including a cameo from Rudi Dutschke. But what's the source?

Go back far enough and you start to zero-in on the floridly insane world of right-wing American conspiracy theorists. Here, I think we find the ultimate source, in James Wardner's 1996 'Unholy Alliances: The Secret Plan and the Secret People who are Working to Destroy America'.

The book is a standard Freemasonic-Vatican-New World Order conspiracy theory tract, of which there are countless in endless circulation on the paranoid fringe of the American right. It contains this third-hand summary of Gramsci (citing a fellow conspiracist):

That 'summary' is then quoted as if it came directly from Gramsci, and mistakenly incorporates the translation of L'Ordine Nuovo – already mishandled here as if it were a text – into the quotation as well. An *excellent* example of the pipeline that feeds these people.

My understanding is that Hochman was recently being talked up as a real conservative intellectual. All I can say, on the basis of this obvious exercise in intellectual fraud is: they're not sending their best.

(You can read the full text of the Wardner here: ia800500.us.archive.org/24/items/40JamesWardnerUnholyAlliancesTheSecretPlanAndTheSecretPeopleWhoAreWo... )