Books like Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Gramsci's notebooks are wide-ranging and not the easiest to read. I found the rambling nature of the notes hard to boil down to a general idea. So while I was reading these notes I made use of youtube to get what the important takeaway from Gramsci exactly is. The major thing to look for is his idea of cultural hegemony and counter hegemonies. A lot of our ideas we hold while we do our day to day stuff we just hold because someone usual quite a few people told us they are true or common sense. These ideas go unexamined and become habits without understanding why we hold to them. These ideas which people usually call common sense or the natural way of things. These ''Common Sense" ideas usually prop up the current social order and can be strikingly at odds with people's lived experience yet we believe these notions and not our eyes. Gramsci was working as a Marxist and he knew workers understood their lives were miserable and it was their bosses that were making it that way yet the cultural conservatism in religion and politics made acting on what they experience contrary to what their "common sense" told them. For Gramsci that is not an accident. The people in charge do their damnedest to make "common sense" work for the social order. The job of someone who wants to change things is to change common sense. Hence build a counter-hegemony. Once you get habits of thought you get a change on the ground. Anyway, I had a hard time extracting that from his notes. Thanks to youtube for helping me along.Here is a video from Youtube on it. Less than 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbe3B...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOC5b...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1vP...